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Subject: HADES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HADES AND PERSEPHONE, by JAMES BROUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ravishing, he rose at her from the gaping earth
Last Line: Fading in his famished embrace
Subject(s): Hades; Persephone


LETHE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, drink again
Last Line: Dip the song in the stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hades; Rivers


LIMBO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a strange place, this limbo! - not a place
Last Line: A fear -- a future state; -- 'tis positive negation!
Subject(s): Hades


LIMBO [DIFF. VERSION], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sole true something - this! In limbo's den
Subject(s): Hades


MY FOES, by KATHREEN FOSS PETERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If worry and fret did any good
Last Line: I should be a millionaire!
Subject(s): Anxiety; Enemies; Hades


PERSEPHONE PAUSES, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lengthened shadow of my hand
Last Line: But cast it. Summertime, good-night!
Subject(s): Desire; Hades; Persephone; Pomegranates; Women; Women's Rights; Proserpine; Proserpina; Feminism


PHAON IN HADES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day the very dead would love his face
Last Line: Of blame, were I to love his beauty less!
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Hades; Persephone; Tears; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina


PROSERPINA, by BEN SONNENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hades is not what it was, dear
Last Line: Now there are more there than here
Subject(s): Hades; Persephone


SWIMMER, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His chin cut water
Last Line: Was acheron.
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Hades; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Dead, The; Swimmers


THE DAY OF THE DAUGHTER OF HADES, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who has looked upon earth
Last Line: On the path trod of all.
Subject(s): Hades; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


THE WAY TO HADES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "straight is the downward journey, tho' it be"
Last Line: "one breeze blows fair to hades, one alone"
Subject(s): Hades


THEY DID NOT KNOW, by ELIZABETH WELLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The styx is black, they say
Last Line: Where radiantly live the dead!
Subject(s): Charon; Hades; Wellesley College; Styx (river)