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Subject: ATLANTIS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ATLANTIS, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an island in the sea
Last Line: Crabs on the pale mosaic creep
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an island in the sea
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being set on the idea / of getting to atlantis
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being set on the idea %of getting to atlantis
Last Line: Lifting up, dear, upon you %the light of his countenance
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What poets sang in atlantis? Who can tell
Last Line: Poetry's immortality will pass.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets


ATLANTIS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Legend has sunk it where the shoreless foam
Subject(s): Atlantis; Fantasy; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have all but forgotten now what it was
Last Line: Now. Finally, now. Now that I've arrived
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by JOHN ROBERT ENGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything that has been dais for several centuries
Last Line: The kingdom of a sunken island we could swim to, should it rise
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by TOMMY POTASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A new theory has recently surfaced
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by LAURA ANNA STORTONI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing on the tip of atlantis
Last Line: The voice of the wind
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS€”A LOST SONNET, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
Subject(s): Atlantis


BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path
Last Line: Whispers antiphonal in azure swing
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision


DANCERS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His high-flung noose had fallen
Last Line: And the lean wolves pair.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Dancing & Dancers; Mythology - Classical


LEVIATHAN, by PETER QUENNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leviathan drives the eyed prow of his face
Last Line: Such pitiless disharmony of shapes.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


LOST LANDS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen faery lands far out to sea
Last Line: And wonder, as I do, why they must wait!
Subject(s): Atlantis; Avalon (legend); Legends; Mythology - Classical


POSEIDON'S BRIDE, by ELIOT KAYS STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poseidon comes riding, riding, riding, over the ocean to me
Last Line: Come with poseidon for me.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Brides; Mythology - Classical; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean


THE BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision; Fancy


THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes
Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean


TRAVELING THE MAP, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The map shows me my attempted life
Last Line: Of escape %the shimmer of sky at dusk
Subject(s): Atlantis; Geography; Maps; Mythology - Classical; Travel