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Subject: ANACREON (582-485 B.C.)
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First Line: "hail, happy little animal"
Last Line: And nearly to the gods allied
Subject(s): "anacreon (582-485 B.c.);grasshoppers;poetry & Poets;sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738);


AN AMOURET ANACREONTICK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most good, most faire
Last Line: Happie so loving.
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


ANACHRONISM, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Married %drank red wine
Last Line: Learning sailing to byzantium %by cussed heart
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


ANACREON, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At length thy golden hours have winged
Last Line: Which thou, with all thy soul, didst give her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


ANACREON'S TOMB, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "pour a libation, stranger, as you pass"
Last Line: It is an anacreon's tomb. He loved his glass
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.);drinks & Drinking;poetry & Poets


ANACREONTIC, by FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let thunder burst
Last Line: A bottleful I drained
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Pompeii, Italy; Rome, Italy


EPIGRAM, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here sleeps anacreon, in this ivied shade
Last Line: And venus calls thee even in death her own!
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


EPIGRAM, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O stranger! If anacreon's shell
Last Line: Divinity itself divine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


MY BEAST, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little beast is visiting me
Last Line: The scratching of black sedges
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Storms; Wind


THE LYRE OF ANACREON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The minstrel of the classic lay
Last Line: As from anacreon's lyre!
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


THIS IS ANACREON'S GRAVE, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A place perpetually on heat
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Graves; Poetry And Poets


TO ANACREON, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the tomb, o bard divine
Last Line: And live again in blissful dreaming!
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Variant Title(s): Epigram
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


TO MYRTALE (WITH HIS VERSES), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Myrtale, when I am gone
Last Line: Ashes of anacreon.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets