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Subject: MEDUSA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CODA, OVERTURE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark
Last Line: Of hoofs trampling the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): History; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Statues; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks


EVE MEETS MEDUSA, by MICHELENE WANDOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Medusa. Sit down
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women


LOOK, MEDUSA!, by SUNITI NAMJOSHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Medusa living on a remote shore
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women


MEDUSA, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had come to the house, in a cave of trees
Last Line: And does not drift away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by KIM BRIDGFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know what a sculptor feels like
Last Line: To see the weavework of nests %balanced in the trees, %and who takes whatever comes
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tentacles, the brazen phiz whose glare
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tentacles, the brazen phiz whose glare
Last Line: The fearful armories within; unclench the airless %petrifaction toward the core, the geode's rigor?
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fall with me'
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by LILJANA DIRJAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Medusa - in your wake's current
Last Line: You hold falsely %humid and hot
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Medusa's looks had what it takes
Last Line: You'd feel your bones all turn to stones %and pebbles fill your pocket
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The head, of course, had fallen to disrepair
Last Line: We raise our quivering swords and think to kill
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs
Last Line: There is nothing between us
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can almost taste the glassy air. Where are the birds in it,
Subject(s): Medusa


MEDUSA, by JOHN YAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finally, the remaining distinctions begin
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA, by JOHN YAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finally, the remaining distinctions begin
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA CHOOSES SKY, by JOANNE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Halfway to heaven she shakes free
Last Line: To behold a round wingless bird %head for the stars
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA PITCHED, by JOANNE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If she were truly independent
Last Line: On the bleachers the gorgons sit %keeping score, one to nothing
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MEDUSA TRIES SQUID, by JOANNE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She coaxed the ten best snakes
Last Line: With the past's gorgeous body trailing
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: 1. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to destroy more that I like to create
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: 1. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to destroy more that I like to create
Last Line: We struck a bargain at apollo's urinal
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


MUSE AS MEDUSA, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I saw you once, medusa; we were alone
Last Line: This is the gift I thank medusa for
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical


PERSEUS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Perseus


PERSEUS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old medusa war, of grim array
Last Line: This new medusa of the gorgon head!
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Perseus; War


REMEMBER MEDUSA?, by EUNICE DE SOUZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dumb ox loyalty is
Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women


STATUE OF MEDUSA, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of that medusa strange
Last Line: Life did her leave, and thus transform'd she was
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture And Sculptors


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#11): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDUSA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dead man splays his arms and legs, he is a kind of medusa
Last Line: Mortal among immortals, the dead man can change you to stone.
Subject(s): Death; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Vanity; Dead, The


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#11): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDUSA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man mistakes his rounded shoulders for wings
Last Line: The dead man speaks also for those who were turned into stone.
Subject(s): Death; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women; Dead, The


YOUNG FLORENTINE SCULPTOR, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wants to carve
Last Line: No man built
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues