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Subject: ARIADNE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARIADNE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavens are very wide
Last Line: Attica.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE, by SARA J. CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Daughter of crete - how one brief hour
Last Line: "and blast him should he dare to turn!"
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE AT NAXOS, by THOMAS DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: High upon the hill of drios
Last Line: But ariadne sleeps, and nevermore shall wake!
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


ARIADNE WATCHING THE SAE AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THESEUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely - lonely on the shore
Last Line: Loving, but beloved no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ariadne; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness


ARIADNE WRITES TO THESEUS AT RANDOM, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have been away so long
Last Line: Around the silence in my heart
Subject(s): Absence; Ariadne


ARIADNE'S FAREWELL, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daughter of a king, how should I know
Last Line: We both are royal; we know how to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, by HILARY DAVIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He leaps: he is already lost
Last Line: Dionysos leaping from our own dark forests %hang upon heaven, set desire %in your faultless diadem
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


BACCHUS AND ARIADNE; 2ND DEBATE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw their lives curl upward like a wave
Last Line: I am sure it is this %I am sure
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Bodies; Mythology - Classical; Soul


DIONYSIACA: HOW BACCHUS COMFORTS ARIADNE, by NONNUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then bacchus' subtle speech her sorrow crossed
Last Line: In type of that new crown assigned in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nonnos; Nonnus Of Panopolis
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


DIONYSIACA: HOW BACCHUS FINDS ADRIADNE SLEEPING, by NONNUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When bacchus first beheld the desolate
Last Line: Who stole my love of athens?' ...
Alternate Author Name(s): Nonnos; Nonnus Of Panopolis
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


NAXOS, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There ariadne, racked with amorous pains
Last Line: "had never entered minos' royal gate!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


SONG OF THE SATYRS TO ARIADNE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the ivied bowl
Last Line: To our queen divine!
Subject(s): Ariadne


THEOGONY: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, by HESIOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden-haired bacchus did espouse
Last Line: Nor death nor age could find her when they sought her.
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


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