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Subject: DAPHNE (MYTHOLOGY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMORETTI: 28, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laurel-leaf which you this day do wear
Last Line: But in your brest his leafe and love embrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology)


AN ECOLOGE BETWEN A SHEPHEARDE AND A HEARDMAN, by ARTHUR GORGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cumme gentle heardman sitt with mee
Last Line: Flye from thy carefull headd.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Panting for breath, towards her parent brook
Last Line: So 'stead of fruit, he only gathers leaves.
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild as despair the tim'rous daphne flew
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When phoebus saw a rugged bark beguile
Last Line: Where he expected fruit he gathers leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swift as the wind, the damsel fled away
Last Line: The grateful tree was pleas'd with what he said, %and shook the shady honours of her head
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


DAPHNE, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know that face!
Last Line: Our warm unsullied vows.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: They told her she had hair the color
Last Line: Silence turned and slept.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who loves me here and has my love
Last Line: Have told me I am fair to see
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Musing on the fate of daphne
Last Line: Travelling in the distance drear.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology); Love; Mythology


DAPHNE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you follow me?
Last Line: I am off; -- to heel, apollo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE, by RAD SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My legs shook. Hot breath scorched the back
Last Line: He only enjoyed the chase
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by GEORGE JESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You who know unrequited love, who know the tear of
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by NINA KOSSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will grow myself quiet leaves
Last Line: He is I: the ever-green song in flight, %the sun forever pursuing me
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by GEORGE MACY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You who know unrequited love, who know the tear of
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


DAPHNE; FOR GRAHAM ROBERTSON, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That white and wondrous city near the sea
Last Line: "that love has sacrificed thee to despair."
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1. APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hir haire unkembd about hir necke downe flaring did he see
Last Line: And with the better foote before, the fleeing nymph to chace
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1. DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Abate, fair fugitive, abate thy speed, / dismiss thy fears
Last Line: May thy good-will be equal to thy pow'r!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


REMEDIOS VARO AS DAPHNE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the rooms are tall, begin to open
Last Line: And a welter / of water
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology); Water; Paintings & Painters


THE BATHER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the sea-wind ruffles
Last Line: Of the fragrant daphne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Nudity; Rome, Italy; Sea; Nakedness; Ocean


THE STORY OF PHOEBUS [OR APOLLO] AND DAPHNE APPLIED, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train
Last Line: He catched at love, and filled his arms with bays.
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology; Mythology - Classical


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand years are nothing
Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness.
Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore