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Subject: HERACLITUS (540-480 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEMOCRITUS AND HERACLITUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Democritus, dear droll, revisit earth
Last Line: Hurt, can I laugh? And honest, need I cry?
Subject(s): Democritus (460-370 B.c.); Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Philosophy & Philosophers


HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They told me, heraclitus, they told me you were dead
Last Line: For death he taketh all away, but these he can not take.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Friendship; Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One told me, heraclitus, you were dead
Last Line: Death's hand, that plunders all, shall never close
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Life Change Events


SELF-PORTRAIT, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside this cylinder of skin
Last Line: They roost, cooing, at my window.
Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Photography And Photographers; Portraits; Self-consciousness


THE GREEK ANTHOLGY, SELECTION, by HERACLITUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A word was dropt: a tear it drew
Last Line: Thy nightingales live on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Herakleitos
Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.)


THE REPLY OF SOCRATES, CONCERNING THE WRITINGS OF HERACLITUS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When socrates had read, as authors note
Last Line: Of heraclitus and of socrates.
Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Socrates (470-399 B.c.)