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Subject: CIRCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFFINITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are not made for me
Last Line: That were shaken for me and you?
Subject(s): Circe; Hearts; Moon; Sea; Sun; Ocean


BIANCA: 9. WINE OF CIRCE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Circe, the wine of circe! Sorceress, I
Last Line: Life dies into the ecstacy of death.
Subject(s): Circe; Death; Dead, The


CIRCE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Merry smiles and entrancing eyes
Last Line: These are the ways of the modern girl
Subject(s): Circe


CIRCE, by MAURICE BARING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more shall the sad, fallen gods be seen
Subject(s): Circe


CIRCE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Circe


CIRCE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Voice, marvellous voice
Subject(s): Circe


CIRCE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something of glass about her, of dead water
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Circe; Love


CIRCE, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This the house of circe, queen of charms
Last Line: And sly, fat fishes sailing, watching all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord
Subject(s): Circe


CIRCE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun drops luridly into the west
Last Line: I bade make ready for our guests to-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Circe


CIRCE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you but half so wise as you're severe
Last Line: He may grow up to write, and you to judge.
Subject(s): Circe; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dramatists


CIRCE: PROLOGUE (EARLIER VERSION), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you but half so wise as you're severe
Last Line: You should protect from death by vulgar hands.
Subject(s): Circe; Davenant, Dr. Charles; Opera; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists


MAGNA CIRCE'; A PICTURE AT ROME, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is her island squared in cypress lines
Last Line: Chimeras, tiger-apes, and wolfish swine
Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord
Subject(s): Circe


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. PHAECIAN NIGHTS: 2. OF CIRCE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then my well-greaved fellows I numberedm into two companies
Last Line: Whereof the swine earth-wallowing are wont to make their meat.
Subject(s): Circe; Mythology - Classical


THE SPELL OF CIRCE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When all his comrades drank the magic bowl
Last Line: To be a lawless, lazy, sensual brute.
Subject(s): Circe


VENILIA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the faint shores of the foamless gulf
Last Line: When on the gay wind swims the yellow leaf.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Circe; Flowers; Lilies; Silence