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Subject: CATULLUS, GAIUS VALERIUS (84-54 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADVICE TO AURELIUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you would love happily
Last Line: Considerable experience he %knows whereof he speaks
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.)


AFTER CATULLUS, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a dumb fish suffering
Last Line: Yet still panting for the bait
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Fishing And Fishermen; Survival


CATULLUS XI, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Furius and aurelius, bound to catullus
Last Line: Roots out in passing
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Pleasure; Travel


DEEP SOUTH, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are savannas bluer than your dreams
Last Line: Of bones in museums, where the black boys yawn
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Louisiana; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Row us out from desenzano, to your sirmione row
Last Line: Sweet catullus's all-but-island, olive-silvery sirmio!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Garda, Lake, Italy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O you chorus of indolent reviewers
Last Line: Maiden, not to be greeted unbenignly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Critics & Criticism; Horticulture; Poetry & Poets


LETTER FROM LESBIA,, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away!
Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds….
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism


LETTER FROM LESBIA, SELS., by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away!
Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


ON CATULLUS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me not what too well I know
Last Line: With nectar, and runs on.
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.)


PASSER MORTUUS EST, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death devours all lovely things
Last Line: Now that love is perished?
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Sparrows; Dead, The


TECHNICAL NOTES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Catullus is my master and I mix
Last Line: Is finally just %a natural thing
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry And Poets


TO CATULLUS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that you were alive today, catullus!
Last Line: Not alfred tennyson nor alfred austin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.)


TO CATULLUS -- HIGHET, by KELLY CHERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lover says he'd want to lie with none
Last Line: Write it on thin air, read on the run
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Highet, Gilbert (1906-1978); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights