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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SIRENS (MYTHOLOGY) Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEA-SPELL (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree Last Line: And up her rock, bare-breasted, comes to die? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Supernatural; Ocean DRAGONS ARE TOO SELDOM, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To actually see an actual marine monster Last Line: Singers sing torture songs we sat around listening to the lo elei lorelising Subject(s): Monsters; Sirens (mythology) IN A BOWER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden sits in her bower and sings Last Line: That fatal tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) LORELEI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what it presages Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) LORELEI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what it presages Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) NAPLES; A SONG OF THE SYREN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still is the syren warbling on thy shore Last Line: "murmuring -- thou art not free!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Sirens (mythology) NATURE OF THE SIREN, by CYNEWULF Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Strange things indeed -- are seen in the sea-world Last Line: Half fish and half woman, must harbor some meaning Alternate Author Name(s): Cynwulf Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) PASSING THE SIRENS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, captain, get you back into your bonds Last Line: Our place is ithaca; our way is home Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus PHENOMENOLOGY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These weeks wide as a wave and white Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Drowning; Ocean SIBYL, by JOHN PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the glamour of the world antique Last Line: Aught but the sights and sounds of bygone springs. Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Last Line: But it works every time Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights SIRENS, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: The news lapped at us out of all Last Line: Do you think %wax could have stopped us, or chains? Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) SIRENS, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Odysseus heard the sirens; they were singing Last Line: In twenty minutes he forgot the sirens Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); World War Ii SONNET SONG: THE SIRENS SING, by FRANK T. MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Hist, hist, ye winds, ye whispering wavelets Last Line: So fleet, so sweet, so few to squander or save. Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) SONNET: THE LORELEI, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder we see it from the steamer's deck Last Line: Then drag him down to no man knoweth where. Subject(s): Lorelei; Sirens (mythology) THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steer hither, steer, your winged pines Last Line: He stay'd not longer here, but ran to be more idly spent. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); Sailing & Sailors THE ISLES OF THE SIRENS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, stranger, cease those piercing notes Last Line: The man of many woes. Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) THE LORELEI, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At bacharach was a sorceress with flaxen locks Last Line: With hair of the sunlight and with eyes of the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) THE LORELEI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not whence it rises Last Line: The lore-lei hath done! Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) THE SIRENS, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the quiet bay / at end of day Last Line: Better than that fair land and fatal singing. Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) THE SIRENS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary Last Line: "here is rest and peace for thee!" Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ocean THE UNFORGIVEN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near my bed, there, hangs the picture jewels could Last Line: Playing on a lute of amber, by the margin of a sea. Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 10, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a siren in the middle sea Last Line: Since all the world is savage wildernesses. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); Tuscany, Italy ULYSSES AND THE SIREN, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, worthy greek, ulysses, come Last Line: T' undo, or be undone. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES AND THE SIREN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She spake; the morning on her golden throne Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses ULYSSES, SELECTION, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) ULYSSES, SELS., by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing Last Line: Done. %begin Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) |
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