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Subject: PRAXITELES (370-330 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DISINTERMENT OF THE HERMES, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What forms divine in adamant fair
Last Line: Sterile, with brimming hands.
Subject(s): Archeology; Greece; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Greeks


GREEK SONNET, by JEAN RICHEPIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A great greek sculptor, was praxiteles
Last Line: And beauty dwells upon it evermore.
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


SPOKEN BY VENUS ON SEEING HER STATUE DONE BY PRAXITELES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "anchises, paris, and adonis too,"
Last Line: But where has this praxiteles been prying?
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.);statues


THE APHRODITE OF PRAXITELES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shame! Cypris cries her statue when she sees
Last Line: "you saw me naked! When, praxiteles?"
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.);statues


TO A CERTAIN POET, by LOTTIE BROWNING MURPHREE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Praxiteles revealed art thou
Last Line: Of some grecian forest.
Subject(s): Donatello (1386-1466); Poetry & Poets; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors