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Subject: PSYCHE (MYTHOLOGY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VIGNETTE, by CAROLINE KING DUER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cupid, playing blind man's buff
Last Line: Love was caught in psyche's hair.
Subject(s): Love; Psyche (mythology)


IN SIGHT, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Psyche is in love with love he comes to her only at night
Last Line: One foot after the other on the glancing grass
Subject(s): Love; Psyche (mythology)


MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It wasn't only my sisters
Subject(s): Cupid; Psyche (mythology); Eros


MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It wasn't only my sisters
Last Line: Come soon, with all your arrows
Subject(s): Cupid; Psyche (mythology)


METAMORPHOSES, SELS., by LUCIUS APULEIUS                       
Alternate Author Name(s): Apuleius Of Madaura
Variant Title(s): The Golden As
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Psyche (mythology)


MYTHICS, by HELEN CHASIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the cautionary tales of strange girls
Last Line: Now, rewarded, I submit to his transfiguration
Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Ondine; Psyche (mythology); Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Women


ODE TO PSYCHE, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O goddess! Hear these tuneless numbers, wrung
Last Line: To let the warm love in!
Subject(s): Love; Psyche (mythology)


ON PSYCHE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At two after noon for our psyche inquire
Last Line: She saves half her victuals, by feeding your ears.
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


PHYCHE'S DREAM, by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes
Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology); Nightmares


PHYCHE'S DREAM, by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes
Last Line: And mocking and a version of his mouth on her mouth
Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This young woman is psyche, of whom you've
Last Line: Is a restless, dissatisfied, fugitive guest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Eros


PSYCHE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The muses, maiden sisters, chose
Last Line: And taught her all the mystery.
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Muses; Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her hand the little lamp, and
Last Line: For she amor naked spied.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE, by ZINAIDA HIPPIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shameless thing, of every vileness capable
Last Line: This horror that I shrink from—is my soul.
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology); Self; Soul


PSYCHE IN SOMERVILLE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am angry with x, with y, with z,
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology); Relationships


PSYCHE SAID, by MARC STEVEN COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wiched have tremendous staying power.'
Last Line: Then the train left the station
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; October; Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE: CANTO 1, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And in the grassy centre of the isle
Last Line: The secret grief she owns, for which she lingering sighed
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE: CANTO 2, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh happy you! Who blest with present bliss
Last Line: Hope like the morning star once more shall re-appear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Happiness; Psyche (mythology); Joy; Delight


PSYCHE: CANTO 3, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet though the knight close wrapt in slumber lay
Last Line: See where the lion's lord pursues thy hardy course!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE: CANTO 6, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Almost unconscious they saw their course pursue
Last Line: Nor damp the constant joys these scenes for thee disclose
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


PYSCHE BORNE BY ZEPHYRS TO THE ISLAND OF PLEASURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fearfully and mournfully
Last Line: In a brighter world to dwell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


THE AWAKENING SOUL, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a new spirit grieving
Last Line: That smooth the onward road.
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


THE PSYCHE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a strain of wondrous music rising up in cloister dim
Last Line: So, in perfect loving blended, bliss would never know alloy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Singing & Singers


THOUGHTS AT THE TRYSTING STILE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, may, and hang a white flag on each thorn
Last Line: Like wind-looped flowers.
Subject(s): Laughter; May (month); Psyche (mythology)


TO MRS. HENRY T-GHE, ON READING HER 'PSYCHE', by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me the witching tale again
Last Line: As nectar keeps her soul in heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


WHEN PSYCHE, WHO IS LIFE, DESCENDS AMONG THE SHADES, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lozenge of copper to the master of the ferry
Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)