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Subject: BACCHUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BACCHIC ODE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wine - bring wine!
Last Line: Poured by the hebe, poesy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Wine


A DRINKING SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faces prim and starched and yellow
Last Line: Hang-lip melancholy!
Variant Title(s): The Cavalier's Song
Subject(s): Bacchus; Courtship; Mythology - Classical; Youth


A SONG, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain you tell your parting lover
Last Line: Of slighted vows, and cold disdain.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul; Venus (goddess); Wine


BACCHUS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me wine, but wine which never grew / in the belly of the grape
Last Line: The dancing pleiads and eternal men.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


BACCHUS, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laughing god born of a startling answer
Last Line: Fire behind grates of a part of her despair %and rang like bells the vaults and the dark arches
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


BACCHUS, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen to the tawny thief
Last Line: Reveling within a rose!
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


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


BACCHUS AND THE FROGS, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chorus of frogs: croak - croak - croak! / bacchus: well, well, - you may choke
Last Line: Croak—croak—croak!
Subject(s): Animals; Bacchus; Frogs; Mythology - Classical


BROTHER GODS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: If woman's a delightful creature
Last Line: The devil take the other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Eros


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


DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's a health to the queen and a lasting peace
Last Line: "and they that won't with us comply, / down among the dead men let them lie"
Subject(s): Bacchus;blessings;courts & Courtiers;drinks & Drinking;mythology - Classical


EMBASSY ARCHITECTURE, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No frieze of abandon, goat-thigh willow. And no
Subject(s): Bacchus; Roman Empire


FROM THE GREEK, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great bacchus, born in thunder and in fire
Last Line: The moral says; mix water with your wine.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Wine


MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: BACCHUS, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bacchus that drunken god from hell comes forth
Last Line: He into mischiefe, runneth headlong still.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Wine


ODES II, 19. BEING HALF FOXT HE PRAISETH BACCHUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a blind corner jolly bacchus taught
Last Line: And like a puppy wagg'd his tail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


ODES II, 19. TO BACCHUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bacchus I beheld -- o believe me
Last Line: Licked your feet and legs with his triple tongue
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


ODES III, 25. TO BACCHUS: A DITHYRAMB, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, o bacchus, are you dragging me?
Last Line: Whose brows are wreathed with verdant vine-leaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


OSCHOPHORIKON; VINTAGE PROCESSIONAL, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The staffs are wreathed; move on, move on
Last Line: From athens into phaleron.
Subject(s): Autumn; Bacchus; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Greeks


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


TO BACCHUS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I'm none of those -- oh bacchus, blush!
Last Line: And I'm well fed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical