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Subject: PYGMALION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HERMIONE: 1. THE LOST MAGIC, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White in her snowy stone, and cold
Last Line: Thy secret spell, pygmalion?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Forests; Pygmalion; Letters


METAMOPHOSES: PYGMALION AND THE STATUE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life
Last Line: The city paphos, from the founder call'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pygmalion; Statues; Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting


ON PYGMALION, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He grieves for his art
Last Line: Alas she will be too harmful whose statue does harm
Subject(s): Pygmalion


PARADOX: THAT FRUITION DESTROYS LOVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is our reason's paradox, which still
Last Line: As warm our hands by putting out the fire.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Pygmalion; Troy


PYGMALION, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sculptor paused before his finished work
Last Line: In love's sweet trance upon his bosom lay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Pygmalion


PYGMALION, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistress of gods and men! I have been thine
Last Line: She sank, by two dread gifts at once oppress'd.
Subject(s): Pygmalion


PYGMALION THE SCULPTOR, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the very morn I should have wed
Last Line: In the long toil of love made meek by tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Pygmalion


PYGMALION TO GALATEA, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pygmalion spoke and sang to galatea
Last Line: "give me an equal kiss, as I kiss you."
Subject(s): Courtship; Galatea; Love; Pygmalion; Women


TO DELIA: 13, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold what hap pygmalion had to frame
Last Line: Unhappy I, to love a stony heart.
Variant Title(s): Beauty's Lease
Subject(s): Love; Pygmalion