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Subject: DAEDALUS
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First Line: At the last bend of the jetway
Last Line: Every inch of ariadne's proffered string
Subject(s): Daedalus; Mythology - Greek; Penelope (mythology)


BE DAEDALUS, by NANINA ALBA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Be daedalus: make wings
Last Line: Be daedalus; make wings, %make even feathered wings
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS, by RON DE MARIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young won't do what you tell them
Last Line: Breaths and eschew a rash %impetuosity
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS, by LEONID NIKOLAYEVICH MARTYNOV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, in the nocturnal stream
Last Line: Daedalus, voyager of air
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS, by JAMES LOWELL MCPHERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a story about
Last Line: One hundred times after school
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the dull wise ones
Last Line: To splendid death -- on wings, on wings I go!
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS, by ALASTAIR REID    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son has birds in his head
Last Line: My son has birds in his head
Subject(s): Birds; Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Youth


DAEDALUS, by ANGELOS SIKELIANOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fate of icarus could have been no other
Last Line: Eternal daedalus, dawnstar of the beyond
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wail for daedalus, all that is fairest!
Last Line: For he knows that then the mightiest fall.
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS AND ICARUS, by ERASMUS DARWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With melting wax and loosened strings
Subject(s): Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical


DAEDALUS AS POET, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the poem too's a labyrinthine, penetrable, flying and
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS IN CRETE, SELS., by ANGELOS SIKELIANOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In our darkness the sun is a lamp
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS IN SICILY, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All his life he was building something, inventing something
Last Line: Straightens up wsith a grunt, and heads out for hades
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS IN SICILY, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All his life he was building something, inventing something
Last Line: Straightens up with a grunt, and heads out for hades
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS INVENTS GOD, by THOMAS CARPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: His worship never left him satisfied
Last Line: He rested, knowing that his work was good
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS REPORT, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: He always wanted to throw open the doors at
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS SINGS IN THE DUSK, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All through the day I toil for little gods
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS: THE DIRGE, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy accepted them
Subject(s): Daedalus


DAEDALUS: THE DIRGE, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy accepted them
Last Line: In the bare field there old man, old potterer
Subject(s): Daedalus


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. DAEDALUS AND ICARUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In tedious exile now too long detain'd
Last Line: Naming the country from the youth interr'd
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical