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Subject: MIDAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 1, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've known her too long
Last Line: Of the other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Loss; Love; Memory; Midas; Mirrors; Sex; Women


A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The girl who was once my mistress
Last Line: Focus to this dark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Loss; Midas; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dead, The


HOMERIC EPIGRAM: MIDAS' TOMB, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on midas' grave, a maid of bronze, I lie"
Last Line: Tell passer-bys that this midas' tomb
Subject(s): Midas


KING MIDAS, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My food was pallid till I heard it ring
Subject(s): Midas


KING MIDAS, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My food was pallid till I heard it ring
Last Line: Pactols, from this day, runs golden sand [or, ten fingertips that leave the world alone]
Subject(s): Midas


KING MIDAS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heard you, o little children
Subject(s): Midas


MIDAS, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I guess like losing anything, I thought
Last Line: Her moulting feathers proof and consequence
Subject(s): Birds; Loss; Midas


MRS MIDAS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Midas


THE CHOICE OF KING MIDAS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King midas, prince of phrygia, several thousand years ago
Last Line: And that avarice, though it prosper, still contrives to cheat itself.
Subject(s): Greed; Midas; Avarice; Cupidity


THE FABLE OF MIDAS, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Midas, we are in story told
Last Line: With asses' ears, and dirty hands.
Subject(s): Midas


THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midas watched the golden crust
Last Line: "nature is evil,"" midas said."
Subject(s): Environment; Gold; Midas; Women; Women's Rights; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Feminism