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Subject: MINERVA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VOW TO MINERVA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddesse, I begin an art
Last Line: Offer'd up with vows to thee.
Subject(s): Minerva


EPIGRAM ON THE STATUE OF MINERVA OUTSIDE ATHENAEUM CLUB, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye travellers who pass by, jyst stop and behold
Last Line: That minerva herself is left out in the cold, %while her owls are all gorging within
Subject(s): London; Minerva


MINERVA MEDICA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good chairman, brothers, friends, and guests
Last Line: Love, honor, and obedience, troops of friends.
Subject(s): Minerva; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Doctors


ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA (1), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the warrior's helm, behold
Last Line: On such a bosom rise and fall so!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Minerva; Sculpture & Sculptors


ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA (2), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cunning hand that carved this face
Last Line: On such a bosom rise and fall so!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Minerva; Sculpture & Sculptors


OWL OF MINERVA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Has spread its wings
Last Line: It will do better there
Subject(s): Minerva


SUCH A DUCK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "once venus, deeming love too fat"
Last Line: "but then -- you're such a duck, my darling!"
Subject(s): Birds;cupid;ducks;juno (goddess);minerva;mythology - Classical;peacocks;venus (goddess); Eros;mallards;drakes


TO MINERVA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my temples throb, my pulses boil"
Last Line: "then, pallas, take away thine owl, / and let us have a lark instead"
Subject(s): Headaches;minerva


VERSES: READ ON THE PRESENTATION BY S. WEIR MITCHELL TO THE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We call them great who have the magic art
Last Line: "divide the honors,—let us share the boy!"
Subject(s): Minerva; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Doctors