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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE; ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eurydice, my fair, my fair eurydice!
Last Line: Helpless, undone eurydice from hell.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


A SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A snake no bigger
Last Line: On the open clasp.
Variant Title(s): A Snake
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


AMORETTI: 44, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When those reknonwed noble peers of greece
Last Line: The more I fynd their malice to increace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Orpheus


BALSHAM BELLS, by KENRICK PRESCOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet waft their rounds those tuneful brothers five
Last Line: Expiring notes—they and these lines are done.
Subject(s): Feasts; Festivals; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sound; Fairs; Pageants


BECAUSE I SENSED, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: All nerve, %all tingle and cringe
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


BETRAYALS/HADES, EURYDICE, ORPHEUS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood before his throne
Last Line: Do not turn your back on her
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Betrayal


BY THE SHORE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some of the women knelt %on the muddy shore
Last Line: And listened now inside, %listened to orpheus
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


COCKTAILS WITH ORPHEUS, by TERRANCE HAYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: After dark, the bar full of women part of me loves—the part that stood
Last Line: Of pleas released, but I am a black wound, what's left of the deed
Subject(s): Orpheus


DAYS OF 1931, by JAMES COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A ritual, he thinks, is something you continue to do long after it has lost
Last Line: He was wrong. Not one had that desire
Subject(s): Cavafy, Constantine P. (1863-1933); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Thebes, Greece


EURYDICE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen
Last Line: And was the way out for me, my love
Subject(s): Greece; Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Love; Death; Grief; Greeks


EURYDICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries
Last Line: Wait, and see hell yield up eurydice.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mythology - Classical; Night; Orpheus; Tears; Nightmares; Bedtime


FAR BELOW, PLOWED FIELDS..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far below, plowed fields vibrated
Last Line: An emptiness he could fill with song.
Variant Title(s): "far Below, Plowed Fields"";
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


FIELDS TOOK ON..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fields took on their final
Last Line: With vanishing...
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Fields; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


FIVE FEELINGS FOR ORPHEUS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus sits on the strumming esplanade
Subject(s): Mythology – Classical; Orpheus


HE LEADETH ME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When cloudless and sunlit skies o'erspread
Last Line: "I say: ""dear father, lead me on."
Subject(s): Asia; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Far East; East Asia; Orient


HIS DREAM: THE BLACK TREE/THIRST, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her, out past the first
Last Line: "from what deep well."
Variant Title(s): His Dream: The Black Tree/ Thirst
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


HIS GRIEF, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my words / I'll make rocks
Last Line: To make them sing.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


HIS LAMENT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is it she lies here
Last Line: Could pearl a piece of dust.
Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The


I WAS MOVING ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was moving down the bank / toward the boat, lost
Last Line: Chin propped on fists, listening.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IDYLL 3. THE EPITAPH OF BION, A LOVING HERDSMAN, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan!
Last Line: Could I charm dis with songs, I too would sing for thee.
Variant Title(s): Lament For Bion
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Cyclops; Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IF YOUR GAZE TAKES IN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they said I must leave hell
Last Line: Alive inside me.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IN MY DREAM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream, she was tired
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IN MY DREAM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream, she was tired
Last Line: In the hill's shadow %which she had become
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IS THIS WHAT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Deep cleft %lightning made
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IT HURT ME TO HEAR..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It hurt me to hear my subjects
Last Line: Dawn's chalk scraped across the board
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IT'S WINTER..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's winter. Wind gnaws %a bone sky
Last Line: A stubborn %leaf in a bare shrub
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOK, THEY DESCEND, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Settle and sink, %even the flowers bow
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOKING BACK, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marble pillars / of palace
Variant Title(s): In The Meadow
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOKING BACK, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marble pillars %of palace
Last Line: Of sunlight with %tiny golden hooks
Variant Title(s): In The Meado
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOSS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loss more than leaves
Last Line: Is carved in bark, in bone
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


MAENADS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maenads came to me
Last Line: Till the heart is gnawed through
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 10. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thence, in his saffron robe, for distant thrace
Last Line: But every nymph repulsed, with grief retired
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


METAMORPHOSES: THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thracian poet's song gets trees, rocks
Last Line: Arms you'd think real branches (& thinking that %you wouldn't be wrong)
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


MY LEGENDS: ORPHEUS CHARMING THE ANIMALS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Neath dawn's caress a silvery mountain shone
Last Line: That drunk with song the world more swiftly whirled through space.
Subject(s): Animals; Legends; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Songs


NEVER AGAIN, ORPHEUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Orpheus


NEVER AGAIN, ORPHEUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gods are powerless to save %their own children from death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 16, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Isaac (bible); Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more with rocks and trees shalt thou prevail
Last Line: Or grant deliverance from the death to be?
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more shall stones nor oakwoods on thy sweet music follow
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What does the song hope for? And the moved hands
Last Line: What will the wish, what will the dance do
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by ULRICH BERKES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Orpheus wanders through the prenzlau
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus he went (as poets tell)
Last Line: Him and euridice for ever.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Laughter and dance, and sounds of harp and lyre
Last Line: With lost eurydice.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pluto sits on his ebony throne enchanted. 'beautiful,' he sighs
Last Line: She turns to the king, “yes, darling, “ she says, “let them go.”
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pluto sits on his ebony throne enchanted. 'beautiful,' he sighs
Last Line: She turns to the king. 'yes, darling,' she says. 'let them go'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When orpheus turned
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When orpheus turned
Last Line: Making its own music
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by PHANOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus, whom oeagrus begot in thrace
Last Line: The island of all isles most musical.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm never merry when I hear sweet music
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill
Last Line: In rivalry, but all entranced she listens.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And over his head / birds without number are flying
Last Line: Out of the deep blue waters won by the tuneful sound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus with music charms the birds
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus with music charms the birds
Last Line: Earth awaking from her tragic sleep, %the cool, ecstatic earth. O hear, o hear
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS ALONE, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought you out deep in the cave
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS ALONE, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was an adventure much could be made of: a walk
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by N. M. BASKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When gathering light
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I hear your soft step treading
Last Line: Through the shades re-echoes back.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance
Last Line: For they were deep in the earth and what is possible swiftly%took hold
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As sweet eurydice, with footfall light
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ROBERT HENRYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nobilnes and grit magnificens
Last Line: And thus endis the taill of orpheus.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1)
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though there are wild dogs
Last Line: The newly-stung
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though there are wild dogs
Last Line: Serene even to a fault
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You and I not sleeping - a preacher
Last Line: Through the hole that her body made
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart so bleeds, words cannot staunch the wound
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloud upon cloud, the purple pinewoods clung to the rich
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They've just made love
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They've just made love
Last Line: Away and enter the dark %tunnel of trees, humming a tune %he'll soon put words to
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir orpheus, whom the poets have sung
Last Line: Just go ahead, and never look back!
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You. You running across the field
Last Line: Tossing a shoe up, a handful of hair
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You. You running across the field
Last Line: The river %tossing a shoe up, a handful of hair
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AT LETHE, by MICHAEL TYRELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: And at the river's mouth, the end of memory
Last Line: Where is the future but more memory?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS DESCENDING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before we lay together %in the fragrant
Last Line: Lost, %unless I bring her back
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS IN THE AFTERNOON, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: All afternoon, he head of orpheus rests on a polished tabletop
Last Line: To turn on a light would be wrong
Subject(s): Afternoon; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Curtains of rock
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Curtains of rock
Last Line: Cold curtains of rock concealing the bottomless sky
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry And Poets


ORPHEUS STOOD IN THE DARK..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus stood %in the dark hall
Last Line: He only had to turn %and she was there
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS TO BEASTS; SONG, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, here, oh here, eurydice
Last Line: Than now you hear.
Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS TO WOODS, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! O hark! You guilty trees
Last Line: Aught but coffins and their tombs.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Trees


PIECES OF ORPHEUS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountaintop stands in silence a minute after the murder
Subject(s): Orpheus


POEM AS MASK, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask
Last Line: The fragments join in me with their own music
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SHE PAUSED, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the path down, %she paused at the stone
Last Line: A mortal's a blossom %the earth opens for
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 14, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch the lyre, on every string
Last Line: Has no relation to this earth.
Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Child Birth; Midwifery


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree ascended, o pure transcendence
Last Line: Let him praise ring, vase, and silver heir-loom
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O not till the time when flight
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There arose a tree. Oh pure transcension!
Last Line: You made for the beasts temples in the hearing
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Antique sarcophagi, who have never
Last Line: On the countenance of man
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the sky. Is there no constellation
Last Line: The figure as a symbol. That's enough
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 12, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the spirit that can unite us
Last Line: Where seeds turn into summer. Earth bestows
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 13, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full-plumped apple, gooseberry and pear
Last Line: Oh, experience, feeling, joy - how vast!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 14, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have to do with flower, grape leaf, fruit
Last Line: This mongrel begotten of dumb strength and kisses?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wait...That tastes good...It flies away fast
Last Line: With the juice that brims this happy thing!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 16, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, my friend, are so alone
Last Line: Here. This is esau in his skin
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first, confused, the ancient
Last Line: Shape as a lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, you hear the new
Last Line: And serve as a tool
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 19, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the world change as fast
Last Line: Hallows and praises
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was almost a girl and forth she leaped
Last Line: Does she sink from me - where?...A girl almost
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I dedicate, master, say
Last Line: His image I dedicate
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring has come back again. The earth
Last Line: Unruly stems she sings in a song
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the drivers
Last Line: The book and the flower
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, first when the flight
Last Line: What he is flying alone
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should we disown our oldest friendships, part
Last Line: Heavier. But we grow weak, like swimmers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 25, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more I will remember you whom I knew
Last Line: It entered the desolate open gate
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But you divine one, unto the last still singing
Last Line: Among us, are we hearers and a mouth for nature
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A god can do it. But how shall a man, say
Last Line: A breath round nothing. A gust in the god. A wind
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you tender ones, sometimes walk
Last Line: But the spaces ... But the windy air
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Erect no monument. But let the roses
Last Line: He is obedient, even when he transgresses
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does he belong here? No, from both
Last Line: Let him praise bracelet, pitcher, and ring
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praising, that's it! One ordained to praise
Last Line: Glorious fruit in golden bowls
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only in the land of praise can lamentation
Last Line: Against a sky her breathing does not trouble
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where praise already is is the only place grief
Last Line: Into the sky, not troubled by her breath
Subject(s): Men; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only whoso has raised
Last Line: Eternal and pure
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree ascended there. Oh pure transcendence
Last Line: You built a temple deep inside their hearing
Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree ascending there, o pure transcension
Last Line: You built them temples in their sense of sound
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who are close to my heart always
Last Line: In the deep calm of the human face
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the sky. Are no two stars called 'rider'
Last Line: For a moment. It is all we need
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 12, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the god who joins us; for through him
Last Line: Transmited into summer. The earth bestows
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 13, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plump apple, smooth banana, melon, peach
Last Line: Oh knowledge,pleasure -- inexhaustible
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 14, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are involved with flower, leaf, and fruit
Last Line: This hybrid thing of speechless strength and kisses
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fountain-mouth, o giving, o mouth that speaks
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wait..., that tastes good...But already it's gone
Last Line: And the juice that fills it with succulent joy
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 16, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are lonely, my friend, because you are
Last Line: Here. This is esau beneath his pelt
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At bottom the ancient one, gnarled root hidden deep
Last Line: Top one bends finally %into a lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, do you hear the new
Last Line: Let it, desireless, %serve and remain
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And it was almost a girl and came to be
Last Line: Where is she vanishing?...A girl almost
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But master, what gift shall I dedicate to you
Last Line: His image: my gift
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring has returned. The earth resembles
Last Line: Difficult root, she sings, she sings
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Spring


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the driving ones
Last Line: Darkness and morning light, %flower and book
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not till the day when flight
Last Line: Be what alone he flew
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we reject our primordial friendship, the sublime
Last Line: Strength we have, like swimmers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 25, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But you now, dear girl, whom I loved
Last Line: It entered the inconsolably open door
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the cry of a bird can stir us
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But you, divine poet, you who sang on till the end
Last Line: Have we become hearers now and a rescuing voice
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 29, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent friend of many distances
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A god can do it. But will you tell me how
Last Line: Nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind
Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A god has power. But can a mere man follow
Last Line: A calm. A shudder in the god. A gale
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 36, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the world keeps changing its form
Last Line: Only the song through the land %hallows and heals
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you tender ones, walk now and then
Last Line: Carry them now. But the winds - but the spaces
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Erect no gravestone for him. Only this
Last Line: And it is in overstepping that he obeys
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does he belong here? No, out of both
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is he someone who dwells in this single world? No
Last Line: Let him praise finger-ring, bracelet, and jug
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praising is what matters! He was summoned for that
Last Line: A bowl with ripe fruit worthy of praise
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only in the realm of praising should lament
Last Line: Glittering, into the pure nocturnal sky
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only one who has has lifted the lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only he whose bright lyre
Last Line: All voices become eternally mild
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breath, you invisible poem! Pure
Last Line: Roundness and leaf of my words
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete
Last Line: Roundness, and leaf of my words
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All we have gained the machine threatens, as long
Last Line: Builds in unusable space her deified temple
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All we have won is threatened by the machine
Last Line: Building her deified house in the useless space %of the sky
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 103, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does it really exist, time, the destroyer
Last Line: Powers as a use of the gods
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many calmly established rules of death have arisen
Last Line: When the mind stays serene, whatever %happens to us is good
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a quietly ordered rule of death now prevails
Last Line: What happens to us is pure
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 12, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will transformation. Oh be inspired for the flame
Last Line: Wants you to change into wind
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 12, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will the transformation. Oh, be inspired by the burning
Last Line: Feeling herself laurel, wills that you change to a wind
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 13, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep ahead of all parting, as if it were behind
Last Line: Add yourself joyously, and annul the amount
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 14, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the flowers, so faithful to what is earthly
Last Line: All those silent companions in the wind of the meadows
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 14, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the flowers, faithful to earth's ways
Last Line: All the still brothers and sisters where meadowwinds blow
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fountain-mouth, you generous, always-filled
Last Line: Interrupting what she wants to say
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fountain-mouth, you giver, o you round
Last Line: Under the flow, she thinks you interrupt
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 16, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always torn open by us again
Last Line: The lamb begs for his bell
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, inside what forever blissfully
Last Line: To disturb the enormous calm of those patient summers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, in what ever-happily watered garden
Last Line: To disturb the serenity of these imperturbable summers?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dancing girl: transformation
Last Line: Quickly inscribed on the surface of its own turning
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dancer: o you translation
Last Line: Swiftly in the texture of their own turning?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 19, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere gold lives, luxurious, inside the pampering bank
Last Line: Audible only to the god
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 19, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere lives gold in the indulgent bank
Last Line: For only a god to hear
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as the master's genuine brushstroke
Last Line: Can sing the heart born into the whole
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as a handy sheet of paper
Last Line: Can sing the heart born into the whole
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In between stars, what distances; and
Last Line: To speak in the language of fish
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the stars, how far, and still much farther
Last Line: There is something that might be language, %without speech?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing of the gardens, my heart, that you never saw; as if glass
Last Line: Feel that the whole, the marvelous carpet is meant
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, my heart, the unknown gardens poured
Last Line: Remember, a whole grand carpet is proposed
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh in spite of fate: the glorious overflowings
Last Line: None perhaps is in vain. Yet only as thought
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the splendid overflow, in spite of fate
Last Line: None is in vain perhaps. But just as if thought
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me to the one among your moments
Last Line: And sweet danger, ripening from within
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me to one of your hours, the space
Last Line: And the sweetness of danger that ripens
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the delight, ever new, out of loosened soil
Last Line: Andhow he must always profit when he lends us time
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, this pleasure, always new, from the loosened clay!
Last Line: And how much he always gains when he puts us %on loan
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 25, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already (listen!) you can hear the first
Last Line: Every hour that goes by grows younger
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 25, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already, listen, you hear the first harrows
Last Line: Each passing hour grows more young
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How deeply the cry of a bird can move us
Last Line: Let their clear stream carry the head and the lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are stirred by a bird's cry
Last Line: As a river bearing the head and the lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 27, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does it really exist, this destroyer, time?
Last Line: Powers for divine uses
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, come and go, you almost child, enhancing
Last Line: Communion with your friend both feet and face
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh come and go. You, almost still a child
Last Line: Body toward the perfect celebration
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, come and go. You, almost a child, complete
Last Line: For once the whole and healing festival
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 29, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent friend of many distances, feel
Last Line: To the flashing water say: I am
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 29, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still friend of many distances, feel yet
Last Line: To the fleeting water speak: I am
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mirrors: no one has ever known how
Last Line: Narcissus penetrate, bright and unbound
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mirrors: still no one knowing has told
Last Line: Narcissus forces his way at last
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh this beast is the one that never was
Last Line: And was, inside the mirror and in her
Variant Title(s): Unicorn; This Is The Creatur
Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Unicorns


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, this is the animal that never was
Last Line: And was in the silver mirror and in her
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower-muscle that slowly opens back
Last Line: Shall we at last be open and receivers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower-muscle of the anemone
Last Line: Are we receivers finally unfurled?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose, you majesty -- once, to the ancients, you were
Last Line: Which we prayed for from hours that belong to us
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses, you on a throne, in antiquity
Last Line: That we have begged from hours evocable
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers, you who are kin to the hands that arrange
Last Line: Relate you to those who in blossoming are your cousins
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers, finally to ordering hands related
Last Line: With them who are your confederates in blooming
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 75, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
Last Line: Joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You playmates of mine in the scattered parks of the city
Last Line: Oh a vanishing one, stepped under the plummeting ball
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You few playmates of childhood long ago
Last Line: Ah, dying, who walked under the falling ball
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 81, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over and over by us torn in two
Last Line: Because of a moer quiet instinct
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't boast, you judges, that you have dispensed with torture
Last Line: Like a quietly playing child of an infinite union
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not boast, you judges, of irons not clamped
Last Line: Like a quietly playing child of an infinite conception
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART: 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, in what ever-blissfully watered gardens, upon what trees
Last Line: To disturb that even-tempered summer's repose
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the creature there has never been
Last Line: Within the silver mirror and in her
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 1. PRELUDE. ORPHEUS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The music of the sirens found
Last Line: About the coming of the lord!'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE DESCENT OF ORPHEUS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cockatoo with nervous, quick cockade
Last Line: What shall I do without lher? / che faro?
Subject(s): Orpheus; Love – Loss Of


THE ENTRANCE TO UNDERWORLD, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A common enough mistake
Last Line: At her first touch?
Variant Title(s): The Entrance To The Underworld
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Solitude; Loneliness


THE FIRE HYDRANT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little stump of a thing stuck on the curb of my street: dull as bark
Last Line: Eurydice.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood before the throne
Last Line: The deep bursting emptiness of song.
Variant Title(s): Betrayals/hades, Eurydice, Orpheus
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Harps; Loss; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Lyres


THE MAENADS, by GREGORY ORR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maenads came to me
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE MARRIAGE (1), by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The season's leaves half over at their peak
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE NINTH DAWN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not for nothing we notice a wider theme
Last Line: All along, will swarm out again under the pliant boughs
Subject(s): Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Passion


THE NORMAN POET'S REWARD, by CHARLES THEOPHILE FERET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look not for gold -- the sickly sons of ease
Last Line: -- the skald's undying ecstasy!
Subject(s): Fame; Love; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets - French; Reputation


THE ORPHARION: ORPHEUS' SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He that did sing the motions of the stars
Last Line: To take in love and lose it with a wink.
Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEM AS MASK, by HUMBERT WOLFE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE STORY OF ORPHEUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis said the music of the thracian bard
Last Line: And changed the savage to the citizen
Subject(s): Life;mythology - Classical;orpheus


THE WEDGE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there were two of us
Last Line: Will only bruise.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sorrow; Sadness


THUS SANG ORPHEUS TO HIS STRINGS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


TO MONTACUTE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou at memory's holiest shrine caressed
Last Line: Is to the heart that loves already given.
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Dreams; Love; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares


TOMB OF ORPHEUS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My limbs were scattered
Last Line: She was the fern
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Graves; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife
Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom


UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife
Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom


WARNED HIS SONG... (DEATH OF ORPHEUS), by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Warned his song could tame
Last Line: And threw it in the river %but it would not sink
Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WE'VE COME, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm now, curled away / from each other, backs
Last Line: Joined at the base of the spine
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WE'VE COME, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm now, curled away %from each other, backs
Last Line: Joined at the base of the spine
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WHEN I WAS ALIVE ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was alive--only glimpses
Last Line: Of my skin and stepped out?
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Soul