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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PROMETHEUS Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` IDEA: 14. TO TIME, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he from heaven that filched that living fire Last Line: Thus poor thieves suffer when the greater 'scape. Subject(s): Prometheus ON BARCLAY'S APOLOGY FOR THE QUAKERS, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These sheets primeval doctrines yield, / where revelation is revealed Last Line: The crows, that brought him bread and meat.' Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Prometheus; Quakers ON THE DARING OF MAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O vessel bearing virgil greeceward now, Last Line: For our audacity thus perish, all? Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Hercules; Humanity; Mythology - Classical; Prometheus; Troy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil PROEM (PROMETHEUS), by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak! But ask us not to be as ye were! Last Line: Child, the live unborn. Subject(s): Prometheus PROMETHEUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Titan! To whose immortal eyes Last Line: And making death a victory. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Prometheus PROMETHEUS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus stole from heaven the sacred fire Last Line: We strum our banjo-strings and call them lyres. Subject(s): Prometheus; Singing & Singers; Songs PROMETHEUS, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touched by fire Subject(s): Prometheus PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blacken thy heavens, jove Last Line: As I! Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cover thy spacious heavens, zeus Last Line: As I! Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One after one the stars have risen and set Last Line: And patience, which at last shall overcome. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His galled flesh writhing on the rock, he thrilled Last Line: "the calmness of the heaven that I hate!" Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand Subject(s): Prometheus; Ravens PROMETHEUS ILL PAINTED, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How wretched does promethe'us state appear Last Line: The flames he once stole from thee grant him now. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prometheus PROMETHEUS IN JERSEY, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The early winter dusk comes down Last Line: A thousand spears of friendliness! Subject(s): New Jersey; Prometheus PROMETHEUS IN STRAITS, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Garrulous gentlemen on a verandah, Subject(s): Prometheus PROMETHEUS: PART 1, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They talk of love and pleasure, - but 't is all Last Line: Of fame is done, and left behind it scarce a trace. Subject(s): Prometheus PROMETHEUS: PART 2, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, thou sleeper, from thy languid dream Last Line: On through the waste of age, to all I loved -- farewell. Subject(s): Prometheus PROMETHEUS: THE TRUE STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mornming. The sun hardens Last Line: He has no reason to sleep Subject(s): Prometheus SONNET: PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These pangs I bear through lingering centuries Last Line: And this fulfilment of my chosen fate. Subject(s): Prometheus THE LORDS' MASQUE: A FULL SONG, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supported now by clouds descend Last Line: Even on the clearest day. Subject(s): Prometheus THE PARALLEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus, forming mr day Last Line: To prove all poetry but fable. Subject(s): Fables; God; Prometheus; Soul; Allegories THE RETURN TO NATURE; HISTORIES OF MODERN POETRY: 1. PROMETHEUS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the south: mid-everything Last Line: Prometheus the forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Prometheus THE SHRIEK OF PROMETHEUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh was the breeze and the rowers plied Last Line: Those throbbing hearts along the pontic shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Argo (ship); Jason; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Prometheus THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology TITANIC LITANY, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus! / prototypal christ, pre-crucified Last Line: Our supine crucifixion. Subject(s): Humanity; Prometheus; Trotsky, Leon (1879-1940) |
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