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Subject: ARETHUSA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALPHEUS AND ARETHUSA, by EUGENE HOWELL DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A nymph there was in arcadie
Last Line: They turned them into water!
Subject(s): Alpheus; Arethusa


ARETHUSA, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O gentle rushing of the stainless stream
Last Line: To love, to god, to her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Arethusa


ARETHUSA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arethusa arose / from her couch of snows
Last Line: When they love but live no more.
Subject(s): Alpheus; Arethusa


ON AN ANTIQUE MEDAL, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wine which gave the antique ecstasy
Last Line: The immortal beauty of sicilian maids.
Subject(s): Arethusa; Beauty; Transience; Impermanence