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Subject: PERSEUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASPECTA MEDUSA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Andromeda, by perseus saved and wed
Last Line: Its shadow upon life enough for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Perseus


DANAE AND PERSEUS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When in the wrought chest
Last Line: I speak, I pray you, forgive it me
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical; Perseus


PERSEUS, by PAUL GOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To my dismay as I become
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Perseus


PERSEUS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Perseus


PERSEUS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Borrowed wings on his ankles
Last Line: And one feels the earth going round and round the globe of the blackening mantle, a bad moth
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Perseus


PERSEUS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Head alone shows you in the prodigious act
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Perseus


PERSEUS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old medusa war, of grim array
Last Line: This new medusa of the gorgon head!
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Perseus; War