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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ISHTAR (BABYLONIAN GODDESS) Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANTIPHONAL HYMN IN PRAISE OF INANNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: No one has sung 'let the world know!' Last Line: O my lady, wife of an, I have told you fury! Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion APPEAL TO THE MOONGOD NANNA-SUEN TO THROW OUT LUGALANNE ..., by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: O suen, the usurper lugalanne means nothing to me! Last Line: Inanna! %let me call to her! Ace is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion BANISHMENT FROM UR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You asked me to enter the holy cloister Last Line: My soft mouth of honey is suddenly confused. %my beautiful face is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion BANISHMENT FROM UR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You asked me to enter the holy cloister Last Line: My beautiful face is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CONDEMNING THE MOONGOD NANNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: As for me, my nanna ignores me Last Line: Turn them against your own body. %they are made for you' Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CRIMES OF LUGALANNE, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: I can't appease ashimbabbar, the moon god an Last Line: Throw this man out of the city %and capture him! Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CURSE ON URUK, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: What am I in the place of nourishment Last Line: When the people of the city hear my sacred song, %they are ready to die Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion FINAL PRAYER, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the censer the coals are high Last Line: Because your husband is captive, %your rage increases, your heart is never calm Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE GODDESS ISHTAR OF BABYLONIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I pray unto thee, lady of ladies, goddess of goddesses! Last Line: O exalted ishtar, that givest light unto the (four) quarters of the world! Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Spiritual Life; Women And Religion INANNA AND AN, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Like a dragon hou have filled the land Last Line: You are in all our great rites. %who can understand you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND EBIH, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the mountain whree you are unworshipped Last Line: The dancing city is filled with storm, %driving young men toyou, captive Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND EBIH, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the mountains where you are not worshiped Last Line: Driving young men to you as your captives Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ENLIL, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Storms lend you wings, destroyer of the lands Last Line: And walk toward you along a path %from the house of enormous sighs Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ENLIL, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Storms lend you wings, destroyer of the lands Last Line: From the house of enormous sighs Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ISHKUR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You strike everything down in battle Last Line: On your harp of sighs %I hear your dirge Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE ANUNNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: O my lady, the anunna, the great gods Last Line: Who has ever denied you homage, %lady, supreme over the land? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE CITY OF URUK, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You have spoken your holy command over the city Last Line: Impetuous wild cow, supreme lady commanding an, %who dares not worship you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE DIVINE ESSENCES, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Lady of all the essences, full light Last Line: You have gathered the holy essences and worn them %tightly on your breasts Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE HOLY LIGHT, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You with your voices of light Last Line: Tightly on your breasts Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion ISHTAR, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deliberate as the shell of a body you offer Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women ISHTAR, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deliberate as the shell of a body you offer Last Line: To wrap them round Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women ISHTAR, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two ordinary people, nextdoor neighbors Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess) ISHTAR, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I first saw a woman after childbirth Last Line: Why is it that I begin to worship you with tears? Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women MOON GODDESS INANNA AND AN, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Like a dragon you fill the land with venom Last Line: Who can understand you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion RESTORATION OF ENHEDUANNA TO HER FORMER STATION, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: The first lady of the throne room Last Line: From the doorsill of heaven comes the word: %'welcome!' Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion RESTORATION OF ENHEDUANNA TO HER FORMER STATION, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: The first lady of the throne room Last Line: From the doorwill of heaven came the word: %'welcome!' -- heart is never calm Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion SONG FOR ISHTAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is a sow Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women SONG FOR ISHTAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is a sow Last Line: We rock and grunt, grunt and %shine Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 1, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the world's imperishable desire Last Line: The man reclaims his liberty of god! Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Life; Sin TO ISHTAR, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it less than your brilliance, ishtar Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess) |
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