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| Searching... Subject: LEDA Matches Found: 21 JUPITER AND LEDA, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In silver plumes of snowy down array'd Subject(s): Jupiter (god); Leda; Mythology - Classical LEDA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the slow river Last Line: Of the red swan's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEDA, by PATRICIA HOOPER Poem Source First Line: When he came to me by the river Last Line: And find me, and in his coming, %take away all I have Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical LEDA, by PATRICIA CLARE LAMB Poem Source First Line: Nature has no metaphor for this Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical LEDA, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not even for a moment. He knew, for one thing, what he was Last Line: And melted away in the storm of everyday life Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical LEDA, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not even for a moment. He knew, for one thing, what he was Last Line: She married a smaller man with a beaky nose, %and melted away in the storm of everyday life Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical LEDA 2: A NOTE ON VISITATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes another star chooses Last Line: Is the only shining thing. Subject(s): African Americans; Guests; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Negroes; American Blacks; Visiting LEDA 3: A PERSONAL NOTE (RE: VISITATIONS), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always pyrotechnics; / stars spinning into phalluses Last Line: Or don't come. Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical; Solitude; Spiritual Life; Loneliness LEDA AND THE COWBOY, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: A few months back, when the night sky was darker Last Line: He has already left his own life behind Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical LEDA AND THE LARK, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: By the pagoda and just as the dusk Last Line: "sometimes I wish 'twas a mythical swan." Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical LEDA AND THE SWAN, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though her mother told her Last Line: Agamemnon murdered; %and the mighty twins? Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEDA AND THE SWAN, by FELICIA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Zeus %he was Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans; Zeus LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus LEDA AND THE SWINE (AFTER YEATS), by DAVID SHEVIN Poem Source First Line: The snort, basso profundo: hooves come a-clopping Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Swans; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LEDA RECONSIDERED, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had a little time to think Last Line: Almost with tenderness Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEDA RECONSIDERED, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She had a little time to think Last Line: Her hand moved into the dense plumes %on his breast to touch%the utter stranger Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEDA, AFTER THE SWAN, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps, / in the exaggerated grace Subject(s): Leda; Swans LEDA: 1, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing luminous Last Line: Fucking god fucking me. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Curses; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Black Heritage PEN-DRAWING OF LEDA. SODOMA. THE GRAND DUKE'S PALACE AT WEIMAR, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis leda lovely, wild and free Last Line: The swan's white neck sink heaven's concentrated rays Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Drawing; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sodoma [giovanni Bazzi] (1477-1549) ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: MYTHOLOGY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Europa must knock under Last Line: What a goose must she have been! Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical |
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