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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ORPHEUS Matches Found: 228 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 notesthey 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 |
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