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Subject: THESEUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARIADNE TO THESEUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunlight to the river
Last Line: Be mine the sad alloy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Theseus; Unfaithfulness; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


INCOGNITA IN THE TEMPLE OF THESEUS, by SEYMOUR GREEN WHEELER BENJAMIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: At athens dwells the woman who hath bound
Last Line: The subtle thrall that made me hers forever.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Theseus


PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 1, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In days of old there lived, of mighty fame
Last Line: And theseus for his vertues held him dear.
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Mythology; Theseus; War; Allegories


THESEUS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What am I? O thou sea, with all thy noise
Last Line: "ask for king aegeus, and bring with thee these."
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Theseus


THESEUS AND ARIADNE, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis enough, my wench
Last Line: Make all a desolation.
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece; Theseus


THESEUS AND ARIADNE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High on his figured couch beyond the waves
Last Line: Playing the queen to nobler company
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Theseus


THESEUS AND ARIADNE, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, I have loved thee!
Last Line: Ye gods! He leaves me and my babe to be!
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Theseus