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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ICARUS Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COME HOME, ICARUS!, by VICTOR THADDEUS Poem Text First Line: O give him wings to soar on high! Last Line: Give him wings! Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical DAEDALUS, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: My son has birds in his head Last Line: My son has birds in his head Subject(s): Birds; Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Youth DAEDALUS AND ICARUS, by ERASMUS DARWIN Poem Source First Line: With melting wax and loosened strings Subject(s): Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical ENDEAVOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw him from our guarded wall Last Line: Than never to have dared! Subject(s): Ambition; Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARIUM MARE, by VINICIUS DE MORAES Poem Source First Line: We have heard of the undimmed air Last Line: To gather tokens of the light %not in the bullion, but in the loose change Subject(s): Christianity; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Religion ICARUS, by EVELYN AHREND Poem Source First Line: On tremulous wings Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Those things I said about my steadfast peace Last Line: So long as I may kiss thee once again? Subject(s): Desire;icarus;love;mythology - Classical ICARUS, by BRUCE AUFHAMMER Poem Source First Line: He breathes, %chilled air like crystal wine soothes his ferrous thirst Last Line: Yet his reckless vault %still rushes up the mind's young sky%like polaris Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by LESLIE BIENEN Poem Source First Line: To think, when he entered the sea Last Line: Ambition, not a fall from the grace of the sun %but a surrender to the pull of tides, to the moon Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by BUDDHADEV BOSE Poem Source First Line: Stainless, radiant day; the sea does not breathe Last Line: Bought with his meager earnings, %thin and dry, %silently aware Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by RONALD BOTTRALL Poem Source First Line: In his father's face flying Last Line: Ambitious and viable, whose pride %will leave no trace in the quenching tide Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by PHILIPPE DESPORTES Poem Source First Line: Here fell the daring icarus in his prime Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN Poem Source First Line: Heard'st thou that dying moan of ... Breath Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Impetuous, ocean winds whipping his sun-bright hair, what man with Last Line: Doth stand forevermore upraised towards the azure of the sky. Subject(s): Icarus; Love; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by VALENTIN IREMONGER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As, even to-day, the airman, feeling the plane sweat Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Airplanes; Air Pilots ICARUS, by VALENTIN IREMONGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As, even to-day, the airman, feeling the plane sweat Last Line: Drifting in casually, one by one Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by ROBERT JONES (1616-) Poem Text First Line: Love wing'd my hopes and taught me how to fly Last Line: It was the purest light of heav'n for whose fair love they fell. Subject(s): Icarus; Love; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis something from that tangle to have won Last Line: Good night! Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bind on thy wings, o soul! Their eagle flight Last Line: A wingless lifetime on the level earth? Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by ROBIN MAGOWAN Poem Source First Line: Of birth I remember only Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by JERRY MIRSKIN Poem Source First Line: To understand this story Last Line: Picture a gate hanging open. %and let that gate be the sun Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a beautiful morning in spring Last Line: When their darling was ravished away. Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All modern themes of poesy are spun so very fine Last Line: And never try to scale the sky with other people's wings! Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by KENDRICK SMITHYMAN Poem Source First Line: Now on the shining Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Io triumphe! Lo, thy certain art Last Line: Derision, and above hyperion shone. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flight; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Flying ICARUS, by SUE TEIGEN Poem Source First Line: At that moment Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS, by DOUGLAS GREY WORTH Poem Source First Line: Below him now in the distance Last Line: Exulting, on his own %at last, began %the dizzying plunge Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS (TO THE LATE WOODROW WILSON), by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Icarus made himself wings Last Line: Icarus made himself wings. Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924) ICARUS AND THE LAD GRAYSTONE, by WERNER ASPENSTROM Poem Source First Line: After having read 73 (wonderful) poems on icarus Last Line: And his sister, the stay-at-home daughter miss firbush, %lusterless but green forever Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS IN NOVEMBER, by ALEC BROCK STEVENSON Poem Source First Line: There is a moment blind with light Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS IN WINTER, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If brueghel was wrong, and icarus fell in the dead of the year Last Line: Stunted roots so far below sense that they don't show Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter ICARUS IN WINTER, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If brueghel was wrong, and icarus fell in the dead of the year Last Line: Stunted roots so far below sense that they don't show Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical ICARUS THOUGHT, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nature of a circle prevents it Last Line: And a dawn that looks like evening Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Sun METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. DAEDALUS AND ICARUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In tedious exile now too long detain'd Last Line: Naming the country from the youth interr'd Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical MRS ICARUS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Icarus MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters ON LEAPING OVER THE MOON, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw new worlds beneath the water lie Last Line: As o'er our heads, a place of bliss. Subject(s): Earth; Icarus; Moon; Mythology - Classical; World PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 1. SELF-PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a red winter hat blue Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 2. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to brueghel / when icarus fell Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 2. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to brueghel %when icarus fell Last Line: A splash quite unnoticed %this was %icarus drowning Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical RETURN OF ICARUS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He showed up decades later, crook-necked and hip-sprung Last Line: That's how he'd stay in touch, keeping his feet on the ground Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical SMOKE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light-winged smoke! Icarian bird Last Line: And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Variant Title(s): "light-winged Smoke, Icarian Bird""; Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Smoke STANDARD OPERATIONS, by KEVIN FITZPATRICK Poem Source First Line: Icarus frantic in his wax-dripping wings Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Subject(s): Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (1926-2009); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Last Line: See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down %while his sensible daddy goes straight into town Subject(s): God; Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Religion; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (b. 1926); Women's Rights WAITING FOR ICARUS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said he would be back and we'd drink wine together Subject(s): Icarus; Waitiing; Promises; Inventions & Inventors WINGED MAN, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits Last Line: Mounting, mounting still, triumphant, on his torn and broken wings! 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