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Subject: ARTEMIS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF ARTEMIS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was soft beauty on the linnet's tongue
Last Line: "I hear the rolling chariot of mars!"
Subject(s): Artemis; Mars (god); Mythology; Mythology - Classical


ACTAEON, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Artemis's revenge was harsh, actaeon (since it was pure
Last Line: And listen to them again, your dogs, all around the %closed house
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Artemis; Mythology - Classical


AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemis, more passionate
Last Line: To sleep exhausted until you return
Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion


AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemis, more passionate
Last Line: To sleep axhausted till you return
Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion


ARTEMIS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See how this trim girl
Subject(s): Hunting; Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See how this girl, trim
Last Line: Savage in chase at last, %'die!' she screams, riding
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS, by GERARD LABRUNIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The thirteenth has come again - but is still the first
Last Line: -the saint of the abyss is more saintly to my eye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The goddess looks infinitely sad, despite all her glory
Last Line: Outside the sheets would glow like lilies under the moon
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray you are always above me
Last Line: Midwife your sting.
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS ON LATMOS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I called him to the mountain and he came
Last Line: I bid thee no farewell, endymion.
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


HYMN 3. ARTEMIS VISITS THE CYCLOPES, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At once, she went, and found the cyclopes
Last Line: The child dives for her mother's lap, eyes covered.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


HYMN TO ARTEMIS, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sing a hymn to artemis, for it is
Last Line: And graciously, please, receive my song to you
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


IN A GREEK GARDEN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have known it all before, in some far dream
Last Line: That soon must fall and fade and be no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Artemis; Greece; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


LEUCADIAM ARTEMIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the intolerable rhythm
Last Line: And the luminous trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Arcadians; Artemis; Bible; Mythology - Classical; Trees; Arcadia


PUZZLEMENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A crescent brow - aquiver thrown
Last Line: Such impudence of sweet persiflage!
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical; Ruins; Statues


THOUSANDS: ACTAEON, by LAIRD HUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Actaeon, in retelling it, told it otherwise. He maintained that artemis had in
Last Line: A blind stag run through those woods?
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Artemis; Mythology - Classical