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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: APOLLO Matches Found: 64 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEARCH FOR APOLLO, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed I have sought thee too long, o apollo Last Line: Can this have been thou, my apollo? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical A SONG OF LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rapture of life and of living Last Line: And as full of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Hearts; Life; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul AMORETTI: 28, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laurel-leaf which you this day do wear Last Line: But in your brest his leafe and love embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology) AN AFTER SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So art thou broken in upon me, apollo Last Line: This is strange to me, here in the modern twilight. Subject(s): Apollo APOLLO, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are stars but hieroglyphics of god's glory writ in lightning Last Line: For the stars forever blooming in the gardens of the sky. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Panting for breath, towards her parent brook Last Line: So 'stead of fruit, he only gathers leaves. Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild as despair the tim'rous daphne flew Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When phoebus saw a rugged bark beguile Last Line: Where he expected fruit he gathers leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swift as the wind, the damsel fled away Last Line: The grateful tree was pleas'd with what he said, %and shook the shady honours of her head Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical APOLLO; OR, A PROBLEM SOLVED, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo, god of light and wit Last Line: In short; apollo had no beard. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical AQUILEIA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes Last Line: Another day beheld the giant slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Death; Hair; Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Soldiers; Dead, The ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by KENNETH PITCHFORD Poem Source First Line: We wouldn't recognize the shocking head Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We did not know his unfamiliar head Last Line: Which does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Imagination; Men; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Vision ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never knew his head and all the light Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The horizon stirs us to boredom or to liveliness Last Line: Accept it, human, and return, divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Apollo; Architecture & Architects; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War CASSANDRA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Captive on a foreign shore Last Line: Death is busy with her grave. Subject(s): Apollo; Cassandra; Curses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care. Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness CICERONIS AMOR: LENTULUS'S DESCRIPTION OF TERENTIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightsome apollo in his richest pomp Last Line: And all this heaven was but terentia. Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical CIRCUIT OF APOLLO, by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo as lately a circuit he made Last Line: Would be so imprudent, so dull or so blind, %to lose three parts in four amongst womankind Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Apollo; Love; Mythology - Classical CONSOLATION, by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See phoebus breaking from the willing skies Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Apollo; Consolation; Mythology - Classical DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by GEORGE JESTER Poem Source First Line: You who know unrequited love, who know the tear of Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by NINA KOSSMAN Poem Source First Line: I will grow myself quiet leaves Last Line: He is I: the ever-green song in flight, %the sun forever pursuing me Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by GEORGE MACY Poem Source First Line: You who know unrequited love, who know the tear of Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mules, I think, will not be here this hour Last Line: The stars in their calm. Subject(s): Apollo; Courage; Death; Mythology - Classical; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The EVENING: AN ELEGY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo now, sol's carman, drives his stud Last Line: I, blessed with learning, takes a pen and writes. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Apollo; Evening; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Sunset; Twilight HYMN OF APOLLO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleepless hours who watch me as I lie Last Line: Victory and praise in their own right belong. Variant Title(s): Song Of Appolo Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical HYMN TO APOLLO, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo great, whose beams the greater world do Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical HYMN: 2. TO APOLLO, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hah! How the laurel, great apollo's tree Last Line: Adown the mountains where thy daughters haunt. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Envy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Youth I, WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME VISITED, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of generations beat the music down Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Apollo IF HOPE OF A LAUREL, by RAYMOND DE LA TAILHDE Poem Text First Line: If hope of a laurel of undiscovered growth Last Line: With eagle-thunderings rekindled france. Subject(s): Apollo; France; Laurels; Mythology - Classical INVOCATION [TO LOVE], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, arise! / and paint the sable skies Last Line: And everything, save her, who all should grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Summons To Love;song Subject(s): Apollo; Dawn; Mythology - Classical; Sunrise MENAPHON: APOLLO'S ORACLE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When neptune, riding on the southern seas Last Line: And sweet content within your troubled clime. Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1. APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hir haire unkembd about hir necke downe flaring did he see Last Line: And with the better foote before, the fleeing nymph to chace Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1. DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Abate, fair fugitive, abate thy speed, / dismiss thy fears Last Line: May thy good-will be equal to thy pow'r! Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical NEW GOLD, by MARY LEONARD WEST Poem Text First Line: New gold that surges up the hollow Last Line: New gold. Subject(s): Apollo; Gold; Mythology - Classical; October ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake to life, my dulcet shell Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Apollo; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE TO APOLLO; ON AN INK-GLASS ALMOST DRIED IN THE SUN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patron of all those luckless brains Last Line: With equal grace below. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical ODE TO THE ASTRONAUTS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O astronauts! Last Line: You are pushing the bright new shiny buttons of your machine! Subject(s): Apollo; Astronauts; Mythology - Classical; Planets; Space And Space Travel ODES I, 31. TO APOLLO, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pouring out his goblet of new wine Last Line: And my old age lacking neither honor nor lyre Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical OEDIPUS: SONG TO APOLLO, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, god belov'd by men Last Line: Tho' he burst with the weight of the terrible god. Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Morning; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Songs PHAETHON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the coming up of phoebus the all-luminous charioteer Last Line: Ever-wailful trees bemoaning him, a bruised purple cyclamen. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical PROEM DEDICATORY: EPISTLE FROM MOUNT TMOLOUS; TO RICHARD H. STODDARY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, were you but couched on tmolous' Last Line: Of the world's tardy praise, shall make them dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE APOLLO GOD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The convent stands high on the rocky steep Last Line: "head-dress, they 'the green sow' call her." Subject(s): Apollo; Clothing & Dress; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Singing & Singers; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: READY MONEY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, before she granted favours Last Line: "thou wilt lend upon it, fair one?" Subject(s): Apollo; Kisses; Love; Mythology - Classical SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 5. THE PHOTOGRAPH, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus apollo, from olympus driven Last Line: The sun-god's secret -- in the photograph. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Photography & Photographers SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men called him but a shiftless youth Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical SONNET (SUGGESTED BY THE 'PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS' BY GEORGE MEREDITH), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After apollo left admetus' gate Last Line: Had quickened their dead world? And, ah, his lute... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE BIRDS: THE HYMN OF THE BIRDS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness Last Line: That we are to you all as the manifest godhead that speaks in prophetic apollo? Variant Title(s): Grand Chorus Of Birds;chorus Of Birds Subject(s): Apollo; Birds; Mythology - Classical; Night; Bedtime THE GIFT OF APOLLO, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When orpheus' limbs, by thracian madness torn Last Line: The men, whose pious rites appeas'd his favourite's shade. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical THE INDIAN EMPEROR: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To all and singular in this full meeting Last Line: Wit live by beauty, beauty reign by wit. Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Love; Mythology - Classical THE ORACLE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To phoebus' shrine three youths of fame Last Line: "none in the dust the wrestler lay!" Subject(s): Apollo; Delphi; Mythology - Classical; Castri THE POET AND THE ALCHEMIST, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Authors of modern date are wealthy fellows Last Line: "simply by liking what we have!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Priests of apollo, sacred be the roome Last Line: Sound, whilst his altars endlesse flames expire. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Sacrifices THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a youth upon the earth Last Line: Their firstborn brother as a god. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a youth upon the earth Last Line: Their firstborn brother as a god. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical THE STORY OF PHOEBUS [OR APOLLO] AND DAPHNE APPLIED, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train Last Line: He catched at love, and filled his arms with bays. Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology; Mythology - Classical THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your consent I made bold to suppose, in my last Last Line: If it will not make sense in their own mother tongue. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Apollo; Dogs; Mythology - Classical; Wilderness; Animal Abuse; Vivisection TO APOLLO, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mighty lord and master of the lyre Last Line: That I may play, and sing a hymne to love. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical TO APOLLO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luminous master of song and sunbeams Last Line: Harlots and publicans enter in. Subject(s): Apollo; Flowers; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Soul TO APOLLO; A SHORT HYMNE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus! When that I a verse Last Line: Swans devoted unto thee. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE DODINGTON, ESQ., by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As late I rov'd by lodon's whispering stream Last Line: "when on that theme my young and thomson fail?'" Subject(s): Apollo; Bubb Dodington, George. Baron Melcombe; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity |
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