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Subject: DANAE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DANAE, by MELODY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To be bathed in gold lights
Last Line: Where air is a liquid, the body a cup
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, brilliant with bright brass, the tower derides
Last Line: Above a million moving waves, appeared
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by ANDRAS PETOCZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watch her opening body
Last Line: Because beneath her skin danae reclined
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe it was that isolation of hers in the bronze
Last Line: The severed head of medusa that petrifies our enemies
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blew fresh and seaward made
Last Line: If I speak offending.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst, around her lone ark sweeping
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a shower of g(rain)
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a shower of g(rain)
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE ADRIFT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When she was set in her carven chest
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE AND PERSEUS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When in the wrought chest
Last Line: I speak, I pray you, forgive it me
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical; Perseus


DANAE'S CRADLE SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o hush thee, my child! Thy mother bends o'er thee"
Last Line: Mid grass and flow'rs thou wilt play again
Subject(s): Danae;mythology - Classical


DANAE'S LULLABY, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Child, my child, how sound you sleep
Last Line: And the breaking of the brine.
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


LAMENTATIN OF DANAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night winds howled - the billows dashed
Last Line: As peacefully as thine
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


THE LAMENTATION OF DANAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, in the carven chest
Last Line: As peacefully as thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Variant Title(s): Danae Cast Adrift
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


THE LULLABY OF DANAE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little one, thy mother's weeping
Last Line: Rest thee, rest thee, little one!
Subject(s): Danae; Mothers; Mythology - Classical


THE UNAPPEASABLE HOST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold
Last Line: Is comelier than candles at mother mary's feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): A Cradle Song
Subject(s): Danae; God