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Subject: GANYMEDE (MYTHOLOGY)
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GANYMEDE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Filled full of madness, flushed and stained with
Last Line: Jove leans and drains his revel-stained wine- %cup, %waves me to his side, and I dare not stay
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology)


GANYMEDE, by JOHN SPENCER MUIRHEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: From lowland valleys came ganymede
Last Line: Blinded, old, and maim.
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Oxford University


GANYMEDE, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crested and ruffed and stiff with whistling frills
Last Line: Big bird sensation, missing local boy
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Homosexuality


GANYMEDE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swift from the chase jove's towering eagle bears
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology)


GANYMEDE AND HELEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In taurus was the sun and flowery spring
Last Line: While all who sin thus show repentance deep. %and if ever I should sin so, lord, have mercy!
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Helen Of Troy; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


JUPITER AND GANIMEDE, by THOMAS HEYWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove's masculine love this fable represents
Last Line: And making him of service capable, %let him be brought to wait on us at table
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Homosexuality; Jupiter (god)


SONNET: 18, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not megaboetes nor cleonymus
Last Line: Can win my ganymede; with them t'abide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Beauty; Love - Erotic


SONNET: 19, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah no; nor I my selfe: though my pure love
Last Line: Are dearest unto me, as doth ensue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Beauty; Love - Erotic; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men