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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHARIOT RACING Matches Found: 8 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARIOTEER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my constantine, why sleep in bronze? Awaken" Last Line: "fatherless, by your master hand forsaken" Subject(s): Chariot Racing ELECTRA: A CHARIOT-RACE, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To delphi, to apollo's festal games Last Line: It was a sight sadder than I have seen. Subject(s): Chariot Racing ELECTRA: IMAGINARY CHARIOT RACE, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took their stand where the appointed judges Last Line: To find that heritage—a tomb. Subject(s): Chariot Racing HOW THE WINNING FOUR WEST HOME, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Superb in pride we strained upon the golden chariot-pole Last Line: Though slumber takes us—still they talk low-whispering in the ilex walk! Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Collective Behavior; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Games; Victory; Mobs; Crowds; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements OLYMPIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Clio showering gifts that charm Last Line: Of the nightingale of ceos Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Chariot Racing; Games - Greece PYTHIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Always apollo the blond Last Line: And a heaping share of the best parts? Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Chariot Racing; Games - Greece THE CHARIOTEER'S GRAVE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: In tarragona where the waves Last Line: "would I had died within the circus cheer." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 2. TO THERON OF AGRAGAS, VICTOR IN THE CHARIOT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O song! Whose voice the harp obeys Last Line: Go -- reckon up the sand! -- Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Victory |
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