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Subject: CASSANDRA (MYTHOLOGY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGAMEMNON, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods I ask deliverance from these labors
Last Line: Will arrange it, o'er this household ruling excellently well.
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Clytemnestra (mythology)


CASSANDRA, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a gorgious gold embossed bed
Last Line: (the place for wrongful death and martirdum.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology)


CASSANDRA, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To me, one silly task is like another
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Women


CASSANDRA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O hymen king, / lord, greatest, power, might;
Last Line: O hymen lord, be kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Cassandra (mythology)


CASSANDRA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers
Last Line: And gods disgusting—you and I, cassandra
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); War


CASSANDRA, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody can stand her anymore. She has become obsessed, boring
Last Line: Up in a cheap hotel room, in the dark, she writhes with them, whispering nuclear holocaust, acid rai
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology)


CASSANDRA, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard one who said: verily
Last Line: Moved on. None heeded, and few heard.
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Freedom; Social Protest; Liberty


CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK; 1658, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the god of all sure mercies let my blessings rise today
Last Line: And tamed the chaldean lions, is mighty still to save!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Southwick, Cassandra (mythology); Quakers; Religious Conflict


KASSANDRA PROPHESIES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And yester-morn the vision burned again
Last Line: Take you and sell you to mene...Men...Menelaos....
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets