|
|
|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ZEUS Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FABLE FOR LYDIA, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet love is slain! I saw him at your gates Last Line: Of high olympus, silent watching. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Zeus FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus %brazen-thunder-hurler Subject(s): Zeus FRAGMENT: 298, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Source First Line: Zeus among the gods a prophet most without wiles Last Line: He himself holds all accomplishment Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Zeus HELIADES: ZEUS, BRAZEN THUNDER-HURLER, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus is the air, zeus earth, and zeus the sky Last Line: Zeus is everything, and all that's more than these. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Religion; Zeus; Theology HYMN TO ZEUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great rhea, %pregnant, to high parrhasia's cliffs retired Last Line: Man owns the power of kings; and kings of jove Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Zeus HYMN TO ZEUS, by CLEANTHES Poem Text First Line: Most glorious of all the undying, may-named, girt round with Last Line: Than forever to glory with justice in the law that endures and is one. Subject(s): Zeus HYMN TO ZEUS, by CLEANTHES Poem Text First Line: Most glorious of immortals, zeus all powerful Last Line: Than rendering thee due praise for thy omnipresent law. Subject(s): Zeus HYMN TO ZEUS, by CLEANTHES Poem Source First Line: Most glorious of the immortals, thou of many names, omnipotent for aye Last Line: Than to hymn the universal law in righteous for aye Subject(s): Zeus HYMN TO ZEUS, by CLEANTHES Poem Source First Line: Most glorious of all the undying, many-named, girt round with awe! Last Line: Than forever to glory with justice in the law that endures and is one Subject(s): Zeus LEDA AND THE SWAN, by FELICIA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Zeus %he was Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans; Zeus LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus OLYMPIAN ODES: 13. FOR XENOPHON OF CORINTH, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice victors at olympia Last Line: Zeus accompliser, grant reverance %and sweet chance of delight Subject(s): Zeus SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had / put an end to his argument Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had %put an end to his argument Last Line: Maidenhead, did she commit suicide Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus THE CHILDHOOD OF ZEUS, by MOERO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So zeus in crete throve mightily, unespied Last Line: To herald summer and the year's decline. Alternate Author Name(s): Myro Subject(s): Zeus THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus / brazen-thunder-hurler Last Line: When I might be running! Subject(s): Zeus 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 TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 4. TO PSAUMIS OF CAMARINA, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, urging on the tireless speed Last Line: "have strew'd a summer snow!"" --" Subject(s): Zeus UGLY SWAN, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: As you know, my feathers whitened Last Line: So what's the difference? Subject(s): Birds; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Swans; Zeus WORKS AND DAYS, SELS., by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus in the wrath of his heart hath hidden the means of sustinence Last Line: Voiceless, since of speech high-counselling zeus has bereft them Subject(s): Zeus ZEUS ON OLYMPUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The son of cronos spake, and bowed his dark brow Last Line: And he made great olympus to quake Subject(s): Zeus ZEUS TOO IS A VICTIM, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great god! Snow, hail! Make darkness! Thunder! Burn! Last Line: Thee through the brazen bower in gold, o jove. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Zeus |
|