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Last Line: But thus in heaven tormented
Subject(s): Hearts;tantalus (greek Mythology)


( ON A LADY INDIFFERENT TO POETRY), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You though! Die and you'll lie dumb in the dirt; nobody care, and none
Last Line: Not worth anyone's glance, lost in the vague colorless drifting dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


(HER) SHIRT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Carpet %p
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


90 NORTH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe,
Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; North Pole; Pain; Suffering; Misery


A BACCHIC ODE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wine - bring wine!
Last Line: Poured by the hebe, poesy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Wine


A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth
Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect


A BALLAD OF HIGHER ENDEAVOR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah night! Blind germ of days to be
Last Line: Hey diddle dee!
Subject(s): Love;mythology - Classical;venus (goddess)


A BOOK OF AIRS: WHEN THOU MUST HOME, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When thou must home to shades of underground
Last Line: Then tell, oh tell, how thou didst murther me.
Variant Title(s): A Book Of Airs: Song;among The Shades;conjuration;to Shades Of Underground;vobiscum Est Iope;carmina Ii. 28 (imitated From);elegies 2, 28
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Love; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Bereavement


A CHARACTER, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her whole life is an epigram, smack-smooth, and neatly penned,
Last Line: Platted quite neat to catch applause, with a sliding noose at the end.
Variant Title(s): Her Whole Life Is An Epigram
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


A COOL RETREAT, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Boughs with apples laden around me whisper;
Last Line: Stealeth upon me.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


A CRADLE SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep! Sleep! Beauty bright
Last Line: Heaven and earth of peace beguiles.
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Childhood


A CRADLE SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet dreams, form a shade / o'er my lovely infant's head
Last Line: Heaven and earth to peace beguiles.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Mythology; Sleep; Nativity, The


A CRY ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity the great with love, they are deaf, they are blind
Last Line: Since oisin's mother fled to the hill a spellbound hind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Greatness; Love; Mothers & Sons; Mythology - Celtic; Pity; Visually Handicapped


A CUP OF TEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have sipped, with drooping lashes
Last Line: Fragrant laurel round its rim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Mythology; Tea; Vision; Nightmares


A DAWN IN SPRING, by JAMES CREESE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Awake! Awake! From out the night mount higher
Last Line: Entices man to golden-fringed hills!
Subject(s): Dawn; Mythology; Sunrise


A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 3. DEMETER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here stood thy temple, on the mountain's horn
Last Line: Great mother, vanished from the mountain's horn.
Subject(s): Demeter; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Religion; Ceres; Human Race; Theology


A DIALOGUE; ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eurydice, my fair, my fair eurydice!
Last Line: Helpless, undone eurydice from hell.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


A DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cruelty has a human heart
Last Line: The human heart, its hungry gorge.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; War; Theology


A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt
Last Line: The star of eve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean


A DREAM OF ARTEMIS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was soft beauty on the linnet's tongue
Last Line: "I hear the rolling chariot of mars!"
Subject(s): Artemis; Mars (god); Mythology; Mythology - Classical


A DREAM OF THREE SISTERS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: From night rocks, above an ocean alive with yellow kelp
Last Line: Being wholly ordinary.
Subject(s): Animals; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Dogs; Murder; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets


A DREAM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a dream did weave a shade
Last Line: "little wanderer, hie thee home!"
Subject(s): Bible; Fireflies; Mythology; Glowworms


A DRINKING SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faces prim and starched and yellow
Last Line: Hang-lip melancholy!
Variant Title(s): The Cavalier's Song
Subject(s): Bacchus; Courtship; Mythology - Classical; Youth


A FABLE FOR LYDIA, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet love is slain! I saw him at your gates
Last Line: Of high olympus, silent watching.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Zeus


A FESTIVAL, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor bloody altar, nor barbaric rite
Last Line: A cloudless sky wherethro' the songs fly up!
Subject(s): Festivals; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Fairs; Pageants


A GARDEN IDYL, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With sagest craft arachne worked
Last Line: A solitary filament.
Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders; Bugs


A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN (IN THE DORIC MANNER), by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Echo, I ween, will in the wood reply
Last Line: Guard her well.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Misogyny; Women


A GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a child; so fair
Last Line: Nor lands men long to see.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Girls; Love; Mythology - Classical


A GLIMPSE OF PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught but a glimpse of him
Last Line: In eddies of odorous air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Rivers; Summer


A GREEK EPIGRAM IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hungry wolves had trespassed on the fold
Last Line: Who prove the greatest robbers, wolves or gods!
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Wolves


A HOUSEKEEPING, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surprised by young desire, as by the dawn
Last Line: How had he waked, and stretched his arms, and smiled!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods


A LEGEND, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a day, long, long ago
Last Line: Thus dionysus spoke.
Subject(s): Greece; Kidnapping; Legends; Mythology; Punishment; Sea; Greeks; Ocean


A LESSON IN MYTHOLOGY, by ELIZA CALVERT HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I read to her, one summer day
Last Line: "you know that I meant -- 'hardly ever.'"
Subject(s): Mythology


A LETTER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since hired for life thy servile muse must sing
Last Line: And where old spenser sung, a new eliza reigns.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Danube (river); Goddesses & Gods; Letters; Mythology; Poetry & Poets


A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nought loves another as itself
Last Line: Are such thing done on albion's shore?
Subject(s): Bible; Death - Children; Mythology; Sacrifices; Death - Babies


A LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children of the future age
Last Line: "that shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair!"
Subject(s): Bible; Love - Complaints; Mythology


A MASQUE OF DEAD QUEENS, by STANLEY E. BABB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Queens parade down avenues of memory
Last Line: Remains to be said -- !
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Ghosts; Helen Of Troy; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Supernatural; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What was he doing, the great god pan
Last Line: As a reed with the reeds of the river.
Subject(s): Flutes; Mysticism; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


A NEW SCULPTOR, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once to my fancy's hall a stranger came
Last Line: "here is thy neighbor."
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Sculpture & Sculptors


A NOTE FROM THE PIPES, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan, blow your pipes and I will be
Last Line: And all your godlike summer-time!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Pipers


A NYMPHOLEPT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer, and noon, and a splendour of silence, felt
Last Line: And nought is all, as am I, but a dream of thee.
Subject(s): Light; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Sky; Summer


A PITIFUL CASE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The villain at the gallows tree
Last Line: Michael angelo michael angelo
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792)


A POEM ABOUT ASHERA: HOW SHE GOES TO BULL GOD EL TO SEEK HOUSE FOR SON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: So ashera sets out
Last Line: The grey of your beard has surely taught you
Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;mythology; Judaism


A POET'S FANCIES: 1. THE LOVE OF NARCISSUS, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like him who met his own eyes in the river
Last Line: His weary tears that touch him with the rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Poetry & Poets


A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was angry with my friend
Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A PRAYER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O holy spirit of the hazel, hearken now
Last Line: This wild-rose blossom of thy spirit fades away.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer; Holy Spirit


A SEA-SPELL (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree
Last Line: And up her rock, bare-breasted, comes to die?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Supernatural; Ocean


A SEARCH FOR APOLLO, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Indeed I have sought thee too long, o apollo
Last Line: Can this have been thou, my apollo?
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


A SHORT HYMNE TO VENUS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddesse, I do love a girle
Last Line: Mirtles offer'd up to thee.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


A SIMILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear thomas, did'st thou never pop / thy head into a tin-man's shop?
Last Line: Always aspiring, always low.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Metaphor; Mythology; Similes


A SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A snake no bigger
Last Line: On the open clasp.
Variant Title(s): A Snake
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


A SONG, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain you tell your parting lover
Last Line: Of slighted vows, and cold disdain.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul; Venus (goddess); Wine


A SONG OF LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rapture of life and of living
Last Line: And as full of delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apollo; Hearts; Life; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul


A SONG OF SYRINX, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little lady, whom 'tis said
Last Line: Little lady loved of pan!
Subject(s): Courtship; Curses; Magic; Mythology - Classical


A SONG TO MITHRAS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mithras, god of the morning, our trumpets waken the wall!
Last Line: Mithras, also a soldier, teach us to die aright!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Mithras (persian Mythology)


A STATUE OF PAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come, sit beneath"
Last Line: Hither gentle sleep
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical;pan (mythology)


A TALISMAN FOR VENUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: 22 47 16 41 10 35 4
Last Line: 46 15 40 9 34 3 28
Subject(s): Jews;magic;mysticism - Judaism;mythology - Classical;venus (goddess); Judaism


A THRENODY IN MEMORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MESSINA, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sicilian muse! O thou who sittest dumb
Last Line: The eyes of stolid caryatides.
Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Mythology


A VIGNETTE, by CAROLINE KING DUER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cupid, playing blind man's buff
Last Line: Love was caught in psyche's hair.
Subject(s): Love; Psyche (mythology)


A WAR SONG TO ENGLISHMEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war
Last Line: Prepare, prepare.
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Patriotism; War; English


A WOMAN SCALY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman scaly and a man all hairy
Last Line: Will find the womans scales scrape off the mans hairs
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 4. HER TRIUMPH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did the dragon's will until you came
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Love; Mythology


ABER STATIONS: STATIO QUINTA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherd calls
Last Line: Back from the mountain wall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Death; Echo (mythology); Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The


ABIKU, by WOLE SOYINKA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain your bangles cast
Last Line: Mounds from the yolk
Subject(s): Children; Mythology - African


ABLUTION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ABOUT A BOY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything derives from wreckage, returns
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


ABOUT A BOY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything derives from wreckage, returns
Last Line: To time. Eros is bitter, and bitterly proud
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


ABOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Endurance %man %all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ABSENCE OF PRESENCE, by JEFF MOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: One moment, orion tightens
Last Line: And orion burning out and shining on
Subject(s): Absence; Orion (mythology); Presence


ACHILLEID: THETIS HIDES ACHILLES, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This land, where quarrels no disturbance wrought
Last Line: So thetis to another shape convey'd her son
Alternate Author Name(s): Statius
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


ACHILLES, by PHILLIP CORWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did she mean that much to him that he was
Last Line: Chosen to begin his tale, at which crux, %and then think how immortal anger is
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


ACMEIST NIGHT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning unfurls its open vowel. This is the sky
Last Line: In its mouth, the willows burning
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars


ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often in the summer-tide
Last Line: Across the fields to anne!
Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Summer; Songs


ACTAEON, by ? BEWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would I were actaeon, whom diane did disguise
Last Line: "behold thy slave, all day that walks these woods unknown!'"
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Love; Mythology - Classical


ACTAEON, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair bloomed the happy world, fair bloomed the may
Last Line: And when he passed, the quiet gloom returned.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature


ACTAEON, by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: This legend is told of me
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Mythology - Classical


ACTAEON, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light of beauty, o, 'perfect in whiteness'
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Mythology - Classical


ACTAEON, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Artemis's revenge was harsh, actaeon (since it was pure
Last Line: And listen to them again, your dogs, all around the %closed house
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ACTAEON, by HUGH WESTERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see him stumble down the bank and blink
Last Line: For him who's seen a goddess -- and gone mad.
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Mythology - Classical


ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology; Eve; Words; Vocabulary


ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted
Last Line: Thou, sproal; thou, zant; thou, lily-eater. %naming's over. Day is done
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology


ADMETUS; TO MY FRIEND RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who could beard the lion in his lair
Last Line: Alcides, flushed with victory.
Subject(s): Alcestis (mythology); Mythology - Classical


ADONIS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods did love adonis, and for this
Last Line: "and wrote his 'fecit' on thy work of truth."
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


ADONIS AND APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the wound death spreads into the delicate limbs
Last Line: And cry, and tear the fine threads underneath
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ADONIS IN SUMMER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lotophagi with their silly hands
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek


ADONIS IN SUMMER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lotophagi with their silly hands
Last Line: A mad old man, plucking at my sleeve
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek


ADONIS IN WINTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir
Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


ADONIS IN WINTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir
Last Line: Their mortal lechery in dispassionate hell
Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone


ADONIS IS OLDER THAN JESUS, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever heard of a place called byblus?
Last Line: Tender life again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Loss; Mythology; Religion


AENEAS, by DAVID DOOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He goes out to the garage each morning
Last Line: Remembering what must be left undone, %what words cannot be spoken
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical


AENEAS, by A. F. MORITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A boy, I was hidden from myself in a thick cloud
Last Line: My love will never change. But I can hear the promise %of the kindly winds flowing from this land
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical


AENEAS AT NEW YORK, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have sir said it well but I have if
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; New York City


AENEAS AT WASHINGTON, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I myself saw furious with blood
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; Washington, D.c.


AENEAS AT WASHINGTON, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I myself saw furious with blood
Last Line: I thought of troy, what we had built her for
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; Washington, D.c.


AENEAS, THE BEARER OF HIS FATHER, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The walls of troy
Last Line: Happy are you who will be said to be the father of your own father
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


AENEID, by JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From pastoral meads, from tasks of field and fold
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets


AENEID, by DAVID MALOUF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Set out then with all %your little household demons
Last Line: Give it %a name. Three syllables: say, italy
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical


AEOLIAN ODE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In ancient crete around love's altar where the delicate
Last Line: Of soft footsteps kept time in the choral dance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AFLOAT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Floating in a tiny boat
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


AFLOAT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Floating in a tiny boat
Last Line: In the tiny skin boat
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


AFTER PIERO DI COSIMO'S VENUS, MARS, AND AMOR, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked on the ground
Last Line: Mars's discarded armor.
Subject(s): Mars (god); Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus (goddess)


AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemis, more passionate
Last Line: To sleep exhausted until you return
Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion


AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemis, more passionate
Last Line: To sleep axhausted till you return
Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion


AFTER TWENTY YEARS, by JENNIFER MACKENZIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When odysseus built his bridal bed
Last Line: The shuttle weaves the cloth
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Time; Ulysses


AGAIN PASSING THE SHRINE OF THE GODDESS, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her doorway set in white stone cliff
Last Line: You asked of purple asphodel
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


AGALLIDE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Equal to a god he seems who
Last Line: It is this we must bear, %for so ...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AGAMEMNON, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods I ask deliverance from these labors
Last Line: Will arrange it, o'er this household ruling excellently well.
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Clytemnestra (mythology)


AGAMEMNON, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaving the dark abode of gods of hell
Last Line: Shall fall on thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


AGAMEMNON: CHORUS SING THE DOOM OF HELEN, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who was it named her thus
Last Line: Dark angel dowered with tears
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


AGAMEMNON: HELEN, TROY'S DOOM, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So I would say there came
Last Line: A child that is like its parents
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


AGAMEMNON: HYMN TO ZEUS, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zeus, by what ever name soe'er
Last Line: Resistless, toward the eternal shore
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Religion


AGE AND LIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is success for your tongue, my children
Last Line: Are for me the same as desire for the sun
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AGE WITHERS NOW MY FLESH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To a passion for sunlight
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AIL A LIVELY SUMMER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Said in %aphrodita
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ivory %cl(asp
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AJAX: CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair salamis, the billow's roar
Last Line: The deepest, bitterest curse thine ancient house hath borne!
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical


ALBION'S ENGLAND, SELS., by WILLIAM WARNER                       
Subject(s): England; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Sea; Sleep


ALBION'S SPECTRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But the spectre, like a hoar-frost and a mildew, rose over albion
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


ALCESTIS, by MAURA STANTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She pulled her gown from her shoulders
Last Line: But by then she had no gestures left %within her cold and formal hand
Subject(s): Alcestis (mythology); Mythology - Classical


ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark
Last Line: Down to the lord of hell.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement


ALCESTIS: SCENE 2, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun, and thou light of day, and high in heaven
Last Line: That our strange guests should be put out by it.
Subject(s): Charon; Hercules; Mythology - Classical; Styx (river)


ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF VENUS, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When nature forg'd the fair unhappy mould
Last Line: Lent gods and men a poison and a hell.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Venus (goddess)


ALIVD, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should mars and venus have their will
Last Line: Venus would keep her friday ill.
Subject(s): Mars (god); Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


ALKAIOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Speak out whatever is fitting and right
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the other
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL COLORS TANGLED TOGETHER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL NIGHT LONG THE GIRLS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than the trilling nightingale
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true
Last Line: The true man is the source he being the poetic genius
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


ALL THAT'S (LOVED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And to men ( %larger
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL TOO OFTEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For them
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALL YELLOW GOLD AND LIKE A DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would I leave her
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALLEGHENY HILLS, by JESSIE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are the green / pillows of pan
Last Line: And I am his wilding daughter.
Subject(s): Daughters; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 2, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But shall we take the muse abroad
Last Line: Victorious over spite and death.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Muses; Mythology; Dead, The


ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Richard, who now was half asleep
Last Line: Here! Jonathan, your master's bottle.
Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Sleep; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


ALONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon and pleiades
Last Line: I lie in bed, alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon, the pleiads disappear
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ALREADY OLD AGE IS WRINKLING MY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Women


ALSO LOVE YOU, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of you when I am dead, the way rocks
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology – Classical; Sun


ALSO LOVE YOU, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of you when I am dead, the way rocks
Last Line: All a summer's afternoon, and that's not all
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


AMBITION, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't always think penelope
Last Line: Drunken war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Valor; Bravery; Odysseus


AMBROSIA OF DIONYSUS AND SEMELE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little slender lad, toad-headed
Last Line: Who have ambrosia eaten and yet live
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


AMERICA A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadowy daughter of urthona stood before red orc
Last Line: But tho' obscur'd, this is the form of the angelic land.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology; Prophecy & Prophets


AMERICAN GIRL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a new poem for helen
Last Line: A green flower from a green stem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Desire; Exorcism; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Songs


AMORETTI: 23, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Penelope, for her ulysses' [ulisses] sake
Last Line: Whose fruitlesse worke is broken with least wynd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Variant Title(s): "doing And Undoing;""penelope For Her Ulisses' Sake,"";
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Melancholy


AMORETTI: 24, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I behold that beauty's wonderment
Last Line: That for my faults ye will me gently beat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Pandora (mythology)


AMORETTI: 28, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laurel-leaf which you this day do wear
Last Line: But in your brest his leafe and love embrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology)


AN ABSENT FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A glorious goddess in her eyes / were you, her comrade, and your songs
Last Line: And in her heart sick longing grows.
Subject(s): Absence; Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Separation; Isolation


AN ADAPTATION OF AN EPISODE IN VIRGIL, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A scald, whose song was ever of the norns
Last Line: To the forgetting and forgotten dead.'
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Dead, The


AN ADRIANA, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gentle, patient, loving wife, / she moves among the merry scenes
Last Line: Embodied in our later day!
Subject(s): Mythology


AN ANCIENT GESTURE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


AN ANCIENT PROVERB, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remove away that blackning church
Last Line: Youll quite remove the ancient curse
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Proverbs; Maxims; Adages


AN ANSWER TO THE PARSON, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why of the sheep do you not learn peace?'
Last Line: Because I dont want you to shear my fleece
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


AN ECOLOGE BETWEN A SHEPHEARDE AND A HEARDMAN, by ARTHUR GORGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cumme gentle heardman sitt with mee
Last Line: Flye from thy carefull headd.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


AN ELFIN CRUISE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas a merry day as we sailed away
Last Line: "a platter round for a boat we found, / and we made a sail of a glove"
Subject(s): Mythology;sailing & Sailors


AN ENGLISH PADLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss danae, when fair and young
Last Line: And clap your padlock -- on her mind.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Youth; Eros


AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come knock your heads against this stone
Last Line: For sorrow that poor john thompson's gone.
Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology


AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was buried near this dike
Last Line: That my friends may weep as much as they like
Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology


AN EPITHALAMIUM, by A LADY [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo! Hymen passes through th' admiring crowds
Last Line: And make one poor hermaphrodite at most
Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady
Subject(s): Hermaphrodites;marriage;mythology - Classical; Weddings;husbands;wives


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You charm'd me not with that fair face
Last Line: Which made us brave before.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the pangs of a desperate lover
Last Line: Ah what a joy to hear, shall we again!
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
Last Line: He laugh'd out with a ha ha ha ha.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Celimena, of my heart
Last Line: When we come together.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN HYMN TO VENUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O venus, beauty of the skies
Last Line: And give me all my heart desires.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


AN IMITATION OF SPENCER, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden apollo, that thro' heaven wide
Last Line: Or does th' afflicted man thy heav'nly bosom move?
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


AN ODE (3), by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When great augustus governed ancient rome
Last Line: Hangs up her grateful harp to conquest, and to peace.
Subject(s): Augustus. Roman Emperor; 63 B.c.-12 A.d.; Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Rome, Italy


AN OFFERING FOR TARA, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen my companion
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


ANACREONTIC, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the tender myrtle-branches
Last Line: "to the ""ai ai"" of the wailing."
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Adonis; Greece; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Handsome horses o shiver and admire
Last Line: Than the long battle line of lydia's charioteers, %round shields and helmets
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANCIENT GESTURE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron
Last Line: He learned it from penelope... %penelope, who really cried
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


ANCIENT SONG RISING, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salute gravettian-aurignacian
Last Line: Where words collide out of igneous rubble.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Women


AND APHRODITE SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sappho, you and my attendant eros'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND I GO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Harmony %the dance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND I YEARN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I hunt
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND IN MELODIOUS ACCENTS I, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


AND LET HER FIND YOU, KYPRIAN, BITTERER STILL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A second time
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND NIGHT'S BLACK SLEEP UPON THE EYES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND NOW I SHALL SING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To delight my friends
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND ONE FOR HIS MISTRESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aphrodite, cyprian, let her find you
Last Line: He is dying, cytherea, adonis the delicate. What shall we do? %'beat your breasts, girls, and tear y
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND OTHER GODS, by AMY UYEMATSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mile after mile
Last Line: Call these the white man's gods
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Monuments; Mythology


AND SINCE YOU ARE MY FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For I can't bear to keep house together %being the elder
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND THEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than the svelte gyrinno
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND THERE, WHEN THEY HAD STIRRED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come to our new kinsman
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND THIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the responsibility ( %nor many
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND YOU, DIKA, BIND LOVELY GARLANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Aside from those who go ungarlanded
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND YOU, MY DIKA, CROWN YOUR LOVELY LOCKS WITH GARLANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With flowers, and turn away from the ungarlanded
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AND YOUR BOY'S BEAUTY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Have the balance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANDROMACHE'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whither shall I flee for refuge?
Last Line: "foully murdered, and the altar of the highest bears the stain"
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);lament;murder;mythology - Classical;poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey


ANDROMACHE'S WEDDING, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hector and his men bring the girl, her eyes gleaming
Last Line: Singing for hector and for andromache divine.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ANDROMEDA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The smooth-worn coin and threadbare classic phrase
Last Line: A legend's shadow shall not move you so!
Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology)


ANDROMEDA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now time's andromeda on this rock rude
Last Line: With gorgon's gear and barebill, thongs and fangs.
Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology)


ANDROMEDA, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the sea, past crete, on the syrian shore to the southward
Last Line: Happy, who hearing obey her, the wise unsullied athene.
Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology)


ANDROMEDA CHAINED TO HER ROCK THE GREAT NEBULA IN HER HEART, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ache / the heart is never well
Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Andromeda (mythology)


ANDROMEDA CHAINED TO HER ROCK THE GREAT NEBULA IN HER HEART, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ache %the heart is never well
Last Line: Where the blood runs cold
Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Andromeda (mythology)


ANDROMEDA; FRAGMENT, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy night! / how long is the road of thy horses
Last Line: There is no fuller joy on earth to long for.
Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology)


ANEURIN'S HARP, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prince of bards was old aneurin
Last Line: Fall to him -- are falling now!
Subject(s): Mythology; War


ANGER AND WRATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anger and wrath my bosom rends
Last Line: I find them the errors of the foe
Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Mythology


ANNIE, APHRODITE, AND THE ELEVATOR, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Annie was some years older, so I trusted
Last Line: Stared at me, smiled, and shook her shining head
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Elevators; Mythology - Classical; Relationships


ANNOTATIONS TO SWEDENBORG'S WISDOM OF ANGELS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There can be no good will
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


ANOINTING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bedroom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANOTHER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you lie dead there will be no memory of you
Last Line: I think that someone will remember us in another time
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANOTHER CONVERSATION WITH THE MOON, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And you adrift with your satellite heart's
Last Line: Your blood-red stone, plucked out %my eye and placed you there
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


ANOTHER MOVABLE FEAST, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tawny skin the teeth want to leave marks on, down
Last Line: He doesn't get to keep it
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


ANOTHER TO THE SAME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you lie dead there will be no memory of you
Last Line: Of hades, too, you'll wander, flittering after faded corpses
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ANOTHER UNCLASSICAL ECLOGUE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where were you when I was for sail
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


ANOTHER UNCLASSICAL ECLOGUE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where were you when I was for sail
Last Line: Sing me past music this time. I never %asked for anything
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


ANTAEUS; A FRAGMENT, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So neck to stubborn neck, and obstinate knee to knee
Last Line: But no so loud as on eurystheus of old.
Subject(s): Hercules; Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers' Writings


ANTIBODY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard that blood will always tell
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


ANTIBODY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard that blood will always tell
Last Line: Which loves me anyway, I'm sure
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


ANTIGONE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The buried voice bespake antigone
Last Line: She woke, they led her forth, and all was still.
Subject(s): Death; Mythology; Dead, The


ANTIGONE AND OEDIPUS, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow wand'ring came the sightless sire and she
Last Line: "oh! Let us hope a little ere we die!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mythology - Classical


APHRODITA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Seafoam
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


APHRODITA DRESSED IN AN EMBROIDERY OF FLOWERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Throughout the seige
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


APHRODITE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pause age-old search for aphrodite, white
Last Line: To those who do not live by bread alone.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sea; Sleep; Bedtime; Ocean


APHRODITE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Not unremembering we pass our exile
Last Line: One fiery visitation of the love the gods desire in thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


APHRODITE, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A spring-time eve illumined wide
Last Line: On those adoring there.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical


APHRODITE ADIPOSA, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady blessington!' cried the glad usher aloud
Last Line: A grace after dinner!—a venus grown fat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women


APHRODITE AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER, by COUNT CARL SNOILSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is this glowing hall of treasures
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical


APHRODITE OF THE FLOWERS AT KNOSSOS COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN'S MOUNTAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave crete and come to this holy temple
Last Line: And mingle our celebration wit sud- %den joy
Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite Of The Flowers, At Knosso
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature


APOLLO, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are stars but hieroglyphics of god's glory writ in lightning
Last Line: For the stars forever blooming in the gardens of the sky.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Panting for breath, towards her parent brook
Last Line: So 'stead of fruit, he only gathers leaves.
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild as despair the tim'rous daphne flew
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When phoebus saw a rugged bark beguile
Last Line: Where he expected fruit he gathers leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swift as the wind, the damsel fled away
Last Line: The grateful tree was pleas'd with what he said, %and shook the shady honours of her head
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


APOLLO; OR, A PROBLEM SOLVED, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo, god of light and wit
Last Line: In short; apollo had no beard.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


APPARITION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All rose before the aged apparition
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Winter


APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 10, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three women sit at the crossway lonely
Last Line: Turmoil of life's distresses for ever!
Subject(s): Faces; Fates (mythology); Life


APPLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fruit-gatherers
Last Line: Too high to pick
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


APPLES OF HESPERIDES, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glinting golden through the trees
Last Line: Apples of hesperides!
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology)


APPLES OF THE HESPERIDES 1, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We didn't like the demigodly, the godly, the
Last Line: A certain indefinite and intimate lighting, an almost %aesthetic radiance
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology)


APPLES OF THE HESPERIDES 2, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: So much fuss, so many murders over nothing. The hero
Last Line: And achemorus
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology)


AQUILEIA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes
Last Line: Another day beheld the giant slain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apollo; Death; Hair; Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Soldiers; Dead, The


ARBOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He seems to be a god, that man
Last Line: From the narrow between
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by KENNETH PITCHFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We wouldn't recognize the shocking head
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot know his legendary head
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We did not know his unfamiliar head
Last Line: Which does not see you. You must change your life
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot know his legendary head
Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life
Subject(s): Apollo; Imagination; Men; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Vision


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We never knew his head and all the light
Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues


ARCTIC MIDNIGHT TWILIGHT COOL HORTH BREEZE WITH LOW CLOUDS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green mountain walls in blowing cloud
Variant Title(s): Daylight All Day
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


ARCTIC MIDNIGHT TWILIGHT COOL HORTH BREEZE WITH LOW CLOUDS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green mountain walls in blowing cloud
Last Line: A mountain sheep
Variant Title(s): Daylight All Da
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): STEALING THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, wrought the mystic charm, with potent sway
Last Line: Lest god or mortal should the conquest bear
Alternate Author Name(s): Apollonius Of Rhodes
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology)


ARGONAUTS (ARGONAUTICA) (COMPLETE), by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beginning from you, phoebus, I shall tell the glory
Last Line: Cecropian land, euboean aulis, and locrian towns %and happily stepped upon the beach at pagasae
Alternate Author Name(s): Apollonius Of Rhodes
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Jason; Medea (mythology)


ARGONAUTS (ARGONAUTICA), SELS., by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS                       
Alternate Author Name(s): Apollonius Of Rhodes
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Jason; Medea (mythology)


ARGONAUTS (ARGONAUTICA), SELS., by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS                       
Alternate Author Name(s): Apollonius Of Rhodes
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Jason; Medea (mythology)


ARGUS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When wise ulysses, from his native coast
Last Line: Own'd his returning lord, look'd up, and dy'd!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


ARIADNE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavens are very wide
Last Line: Attica.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE, by JOHN BURT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The water burns on the sand. Here
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As dash the waves on naxos' rocky strand
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But I woul turne againe to ariadne
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE, by SARA J. CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Daughter of crete - how one brief hour
Last Line: "and blast him should he dare to turn!"
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of crete, how one brief hour
Last Line: "and blast him should he dare to turn!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: All through the blazing afternoon
Last Line: Arrows of light %resound within her like the strings of a guitar
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ARIADNE AT NAXOS, by THOMAS DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: High upon the hill of drios
Last Line: But ariadne sleeps, and nevermore shall wake!
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


ARIADNE WATCHING THE SAE AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THESEUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely - lonely on the shore
Last Line: Loving, but beloved no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ariadne; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness


ARIADNE'S FAREWELL, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daughter of a king, how should I know
Last Line: We both are royal; we know how to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


ARION, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the scaly, living
Last Line: The wind attends to this raft; it does not draw; it is drawn
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ARION, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arion, whose melodic soul
Last Line: Like a pierced eagle fell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Harps; Musical Instruments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Greeks; Lyres


ARKHEANASSA AND GORGO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shall be known as
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AROUND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Clouds
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ARRACK, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a sultry land of palm and rice
Last Line: And dance with cobras on nude bosoms coiled!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Night; Bedtime


ARRIVAL, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That's how a god descends from a mountain peak
Last Line: Later, how in such a flash, the dark came there
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the last bend of the jetway
Last Line: Every inch of ariadne's proffered string
Subject(s): Daedalus; Mythology - Greek; Penelope (mythology)


ARTEMIS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See how this trim girl
Subject(s): Hunting; Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See how this girl, trim
Last Line: Savage in chase at last, %'die!' she screams, riding
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS, by GERARD LABRUNIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The thirteenth has come again - but is still the first
Last Line: -the saint of the abyss is more saintly to my eye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The goddess looks infinitely sad, despite all her glory
Last Line: Outside the sheets would glow like lilies under the moon
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray you are always above me
Last Line: Midwife your sting.
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS ON LATMOS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I called him to the mountain and he came
Last Line: I bid thee no farewell, endymion.
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


ARTEMIS PROLOGUIZES, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a goddess of the ambrosial courts
Last Line: Await, in fitting silence, the event.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ARTS OF DEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then left the sons of urizen the plow & harrow, the loom
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


AS A HYACINTH IN THE MOUNTAINS THAT MEN SHEPHERDING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tread underfoot, and to the ground its flower, all purple
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS A POET OF LESBOS SURPASSES FOREIGNERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS A SWEET APPLE REDDENS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: They couldn't reach it
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS GOOD NATURED AS A LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I don't snap and pout and rage
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS IT HAPPENS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But you know well
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS ONCE IN CRETE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In that antique time
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AS THE STARS SURROUNDING THE LOVELY MOON WILL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over the whole earth
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ASLEEP AGAINST THE BREASTS OF A FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ASPECTA MEDUSA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Andromeda, by perseus saved and wed
Last Line: Its shadow upon life enough for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Perseus


ASPECTS OF AUTUMN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the wonder of their weaving lie the forests and the fields
Last Line: Yea, utterly forgotten, every one.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Seasons; Tears; Fall; Woods


ASPHODEL (AFTER THE WORDS OF PENNY TURNER NYMPHAION GREECE), by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Our guide turned in her saddle broke the spell
Last Line: Like honey-but with hints of rotting meet %an army of them bristled at my feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Fame; Life; Mythology - Classical


ASSYRIAN NIGHT-SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is naught, on either hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Assyria; Deserts; Food And Eating; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Night; Singing And Singers


ASTARTE SYRIACA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mystery: lo! Betwixt the sun and moon
Last Line: Betwixt the sun and moon a mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess)


AT ELEUSIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of eleusis, ye that with long staves
Last Line: With their bowed necks of burden equable.
Variant Title(s): At Eleven
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature


AT HOCHFINSTERMUNZ, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more between its walls of pines
Last Line: And, dying, trust thee for the rest.
Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Soul; Switzerland; Swiss


AT NOONTIME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the earth is
Last Line: The cricket sets %up a high-pitched %singing in his wings
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night


AT THE EDGE OF THUNDER: 3, by LYDIA AVLONITI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I defied all gods - the revenge
Last Line: And the treason %-- - now the silence
Subject(s): Mythology; Thunder


AT THE END OF OUTSIDE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer opens its caesura
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


AT THE END OF OUTSIDE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer opens its caesura
Last Line: Toward december, the trees also
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


AT THE TEMPLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who comes in flowers. The uncrowned they turn away
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


AT WEEP, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can't move can't speak can't think to wonder
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime


ATALANTA IN CALYDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars
Last Line: For the hands of their kingdom are strong.
Subject(s): Atalanta; Fates (mythology); Mankind; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Human Race; Theology


ATHENA, PAINTED ON AN AMPHORA BY PSIAX (BRESCIA), by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The unwise owl on your shield resembles a dove
Last Line: And no one to measure how slowly the colors fade
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Museums; Mythology; Paintings And Painters


ATHENS: ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere from under earth again like fire the violet kindle
Last Line: These alone have part in spirit with the sun that crowns the sea.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


ATLANTIS, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an island in the sea
Last Line: Crabs on the pale mosaic creep
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an island in the sea
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being set on the idea / of getting to atlantis
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being set on the idea %of getting to atlantis
Last Line: Lifting up, dear, upon you %the light of his countenance
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What poets sang in atlantis? Who can tell
Last Line: Poetry's immortality will pass.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets


ATLANTIS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Legend has sunk it where the shoreless foam
Subject(s): Atlantis; Fantasy; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have all but forgotten now what it was
Last Line: Now. Finally, now. Now that I've arrived
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by JOHN ROBERT ENGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything that has been dais for several centuries
Last Line: The kingdom of a sunken island we could swim to, should it rise
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by TOMMY POTASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A new theory has recently surfaced
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLANTIS, by LAURA ANNA STORTONI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing on the tip of atlantis
Last Line: The voice of the wind
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


ATLAS, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Extreme exertion / isolates a person
Subject(s): Atlas (mythology)


AUBADE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When fair hyperion dons his night attire
Last Line: As storms in june or blossom-boughs in may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Spring


AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand
Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day
Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World
Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology


AWAKE! (TO MOHAMED ALI JINNAH), by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Waken, o mother! Thy children implore thee
Last Line: Hearken! O queen and o goddess, we hail thee!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Worship; Dead, The


AWED BY HER SPLENDOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When she %is roundest and lights %earth with her silver
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night


BACCHUS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me wine, but wine which never grew / in the belly of the grape
Last Line: The dancing pleiads and eternal men.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


BACCHUS, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laughing god born of a startling answer
Last Line: Fire behind grates of a part of her despair %and rang like bells the vaults and the dark arches
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


BACCHUS, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen to the tawny thief
Last Line: Reveling within a rose!
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, by HILARY DAVIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He leaps: he is already lost
Last Line: Dionysos leaping from our own dark forests %hang upon heaven, set desire %in your faultless diadem
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


BACCHUS AND ARIADNE; 2ND DEBATE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw their lives curl upward like a wave
Last Line: I am sure it is this %I am sure
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Bodies; Mythology - Classical; Soul


BACCHUS AND THE FROGS, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chorus of frogs: croak - croak - croak! / bacchus: well, well, - you may choke
Last Line: Croak—croak—croak!
Subject(s): Animals; Bacchus; Frogs; Mythology - Classical


BALDER DEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So on the floor lay balder dead; and round
Last Line: At last he sigh'd, and set forth back to heaven.
Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Mythology - Norse


BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: RAGNAROK, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No fleeter follows echo on the sound
Last Line: "baldur the beautiful! Alas! Alas!"
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Greek


BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time
Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark.
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE JOURNEY TO HEL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The aesir's chorus / fast! Ride fast!
Last Line: And silence held its breath for what should come.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BALLADE OF THE FOREST HAUNTERS, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still do they sing, the swarm of mocking fays
Last Line: Where dian thro' the forest fareth by.
Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods


BALLADE: 24, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pain of all pain, the most grievous pain
Last Line: Unto the soul from the body depart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery


BALOR, by THOMAS BOYD    Poem Text                    
First Line: What fools are men to plough the earth for grain
Subject(s): Balor (king, Irish Mythology)


BALSHAM BELLS, by KENRICK PRESCOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet waft their rounds those tuneful brothers five
Last Line: Expiring notes—they and these lines are done.
Subject(s): Feasts; Festivals; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sound; Fairs; Pageants


BANISHING THE SUITOR, by SUSAN TICHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In order to perform this, I must have all the animal
Last Line: And I am old. My ankles are of wind. They twine %with yours and you retreat %as if from cold, or gra
Subject(s): Mythology


BANISHMENT, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whom else have you expelled like a titan forever
Last Line: Left and right like sentinels by your palace door?
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Olympus (mountain), Greece; Titans (mythology)


BARBITOS, BAROMOS, BARMOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BE KIND TO ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gongyla, I ask only
Last Line: Come soon
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEAR MOTHER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She veils herself
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


BEAUTIFUL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For day is nigh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEAUTY (1), by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough
Last Line: Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.
Variant Title(s): One Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 1;a Young Bride (1)
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEAUTY (2), by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the wild hyacinth flower, which on the hills is found
Last Line: Until the purple blossom is trodden into the ground.
Variant Title(s): A Young Bride (2);one Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 2
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEAUTY IS BEAUTY ONLY WHILE YOU GAZE ON IT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But one who's good will soon be beautiful as well
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEAUTY IS FOR THE EYES AND FADES IN A WHILE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But goodness is a beauty that lasts forever
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BECALMED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that the winds might
Last Line: Ah! That the winds might rise and blow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Mythology; Wind


BECAME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For no
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BECAUSE I SENSED, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: All nerve, %all tingle and cringe
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


BEDTIME READING FOR THE UNBORN CHILD, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long after the sun falls into the sea
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Coming Of Age; Mythology


BEFORE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young men wait in their carnival bodies
Last Line: All the air, no notes, only rests
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Music And Musicians; Mythology - Classical


BEFORE A STATUE OF ACHILLES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold pelides with his yellow hair
Last Line: The perfect body is itself the soul.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Statues


BEFORE MY LYING HEART COULD SPEAK FOR LIFE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No sacred grove
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The horizon stirs us to boredom or to liveliness
Last Line: Accept it, human, and return, divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Apollo; Architecture & Architects; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors


BEFOREHAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Kran(n)iades %girls
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BELLEROPHON, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maimed, beggared, grey; seeking an alms; with nod
Last Line: Show but a pool of scum for shooting flies.
Subject(s): Bellerophon; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


BELOVED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Him I hold as happy as god in heaven
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BETRAYALS/HADES, EURYDICE, ORPHEUS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood before his throne
Last Line: Do not turn your back on her
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Betrayal


BIRTH OF VENUS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Risen in a %welter of waters
Last Line: The crisp delightful botticellian wave
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


BLACK DREAMS OF SUCH VIRULENCE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I %this
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BLACK-TAILED HARE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A grizzled black-eyed jackrabbit showed me
Last Line: Do it for us %said the rabbit
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


BLAKE'S APOLOGY FOR HIS CATALOGUE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having given great offence by writing in prose
Last Line: That I may put them in mind of their latter ends
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Poetry & Poets


BLAST OF LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a mountain whirlwind
Last Line: Punishing the oak trees, %love shattered my heart
Variant Title(s): Like A Mountain Whirlwin
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When silver snow decks susan's cloaths
Last Line: Then laws were made to keep fair play.
Variant Title(s): Song Third By An Old Shepherd
Subject(s): Bible; Games; Mythology; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


BLUE PRINTS FOR AN ELYSIUM, by ALEC BROCK STEVENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: How much for paradise? Now mine is new
Last Line: Across the western sky, a lark, a rose.
Subject(s): Elysium (mythology)


BLUE SKY, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eastward from here
Last Line: Where the eagle that flies out of sight %flies
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


BOAT OF A BILLION YEARS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boat of a million years
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


BOAT OF A BILLION YEARS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boat of a million years
Last Line: We are led by dolphins toward morning
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


BOOK OF VISIONS: THE SADNESS OF PAN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rapturous lark has thrown to calm, unechoing skies, his trill's
Last Line: And suddenly pan hurled to that still sphere above the final cry of love!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


BRIDE WITH BEAUTIFUL FEET, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDEGROOM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What can %sappho
Last Line: Stiffly %pliant?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDEGROOM, EXULT! JUST AS YOU PRAYED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Aphrodita has honored you above all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDEGROOM, FOR YOUR TIRESOME BACHELOR FRIENDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDEGROOM, YOU ARE BLESSED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Aphrodite honors you exceedingly
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path
Last Line: Whispers antiphonal in azure swing
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision


BRIGHTENS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All afternoon dust motes
Last Line: For you all of these things
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


BRIGHTNESS AND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Desperation, %land
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BROTHER GODS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: If woman's a delightful creature
Last Line: The devil take the other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Eros


BROTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesus replied: 'fear not albion: unless I die thou canst not live
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


BUBBS CREEK HAIRCUT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High ceilinged and the double mirrors, the
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


BUBBS CREEK HAIRCUT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High ceilinged and the double mirrors, the
Last Line: Your bubbs creek haircut, boy.'
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


BUILDERS OF GOLGONOOZA, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are those golden builders doing? Where was the burying-place?
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


BUNYIP, by DOUGLAS STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: The water down the rocky wall
Last Line: For I'll catch the moon by her silver hair and dance her around the sky
Subject(s): Mythology - Australian


BUT ATTIS, TO YOU THE THOUGHT OF ME GROWS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hateful, and you fly off to andromeda
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BUT I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE WITH A RESENTFUL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Temperament: I have a quiet heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BUT INTRICATE SANDALS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Covered up her feet, a delightful piece of %lydian work
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BUT STAND BEFORE ME, IF YOU ARE MY FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And spread the grace that's in your eyes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


BY THE BALBOA SEAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden fleece is at our feet
Last Line: Where sound and sing the balboa seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology)


BY THE SHORE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some of the women knelt %on the muddy shore
Last Line: And listened now inside, %listened to orpheus
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


CALISTO, OR THE CHASTE NYMPH: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As jupiter I made my court in vain
Last Line: To bind your friends and to disarm your foes.
Variant Title(s): Spilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken By Lady Wentworth
Subject(s): Beauty; Crowne, John (1640-1703); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nations; Nymphs


CALLED YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eros has given me, beauty and the light of the sun
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CALLIOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chief of the muses - great calliope!
Last Line: Thus mask in modern processes immense.
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology


CALYPSO, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wanderer, we must part-so the gods decree
Last Line: Peace upon that home in ithaca!
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Ithaca, Greece; Mythology


CALYPSO, by ARTHUR STANLEY WHEELER    Poem Text                    
First Line: High on a crag above the restless sea
Last Line: And ah, the ceaseless beating of the waves!
Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Yale University


CALYPSO TO ULYSSES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If there were any room within my heart
Last Line: Than you an aging man's concupiscence.
Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years, years have pass'd away
Last Line: Mid the far-off southern seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Calypso (mythology)


CALYPSO'S ISLAND, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know very well, goddess, she is not beautiful
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


CALYPSO'S ISLAND, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know very well, goddess, she is not beautiful
Last Line: Where that one wears the sunlight for a while
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


CAME HUSBAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: )ing bri(ght
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CAMEO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Long shall he live thro' time remembered
Last Line: With thrust of tail and fin.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean


CANOPUS; A LEAP FROM THE PAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the palms, the peaks of pearly gray
Last Line: That makes them purely one!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Past; Singing & Singers


CANTATA, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shade
Last Line: Cupid does with phoebus reign.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros


CANTO 1, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then went down to the ship
Variant Title(s): The Odyssey: Book 11 (homer)
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus


CANTO 1, by EZRA POUND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And then went down to the ship
Last Line: Girdles and breast bands, thou with dark eyelids %bearing the golden bough of argicida. So that
Variant Title(s): The Odyssey: Book 11 (homer
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Ulysses


CANTO 3, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology; Social Commentaries; Murder


CANTO 4, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Palace in smoky light,
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Desire; Relationships; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines


CANTO 81, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; ; Relationships; Disappointment; Books; Reading


CANTO 9; THE GREAT TURTLE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When fierce beset with dire alarms
Last Line: A charnel house of human bones.
Subject(s): Hate; Islands; Mythology; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CANYON WREN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look up at the cliffs
Last Line: Here and gone, %to purify our ears
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


CARMEN SECULARE, FOR THE YEAR MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy elder look, great janus, cast
Last Line: With everlasting beams of friendly light.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Heroism; Mythology; Nations; Peace; War; Heroes; Heroines


CARNAGE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What if helen had been black? He didn't want to think about it
Last Line: Thought of sheba
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Likes And Dislikes; Mythology; Mythology - Greek; Women


CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon
Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War


CARROWMORE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a lonely road through bogland to the lake at carrowmore
Last Line: And the old enchantment lingers in the honey-heart of earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Carrowmore (cemetery, Ireland); Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish


CARTHON, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A tale of the times of old! The deeds of days of other years
Last Line: The blast of the north is on the plain; %the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mythology - Gaelic


CASSANDRA, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a gorgious gold embossed bed
Last Line: (the place for wrongful death and martirdum.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology)


CASSANDRA, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To me, one silly task is like another
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Women


CASSANDRA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O hymen king, / lord, greatest, power, might;
Last Line: O hymen lord, be kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Cassandra (mythology)


CASSANDRA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers
Last Line: And gods disgusting—you and I, cassandra
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); War


CASSANDRA, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Captive on a foreign shore
Last Line: Death is busy with her grave.
Subject(s): Apollo; Cassandra; Curses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


CASSANDRA, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody can stand her anymore. She has become obsessed, boring
Last Line: Up in a cheap hotel room, in the dark, she writhes with them, whispering nuclear holocaust, acid rai
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology)


CASSANDRA, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard one who said: verily
Last Line: Moved on. None heeded, and few heard.
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Freedom; Social Protest; Liberty


CASSANDRA, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And mirth was in the halls of troy
Last Line: Hangs black on ilion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Cassandra; Mythology - Greek


CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK; 1658, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the god of all sure mercies let my blessings rise today
Last Line: And tamed the chaldean lions, is mighty still to save!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Southwick, Cassandra (mythology); Quakers; Religious Conflict


CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre
Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care.
Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness


CERTAINLY NOW THEY'VE HAD QUITE ENOUGH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of gorgo
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CEYX AND ALCYONE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These prodigies affect the pious prince
Last Line: And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CHANCE TO MACAREUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If streaming blood my fatal letter stain
Last Line: As I perform my cruel fathers will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


CHANG E, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon a screen of mica
Last Line: Her heart night after night
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In just - / spring - when the world is mud-
Last Line: Wee
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Balloons; Language; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Spring; Words; Vocabulary


CHANT TO A WERE-BEAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "were-bear, why are you not in hell?"
Subject(s): Animals;bears;mythology - Native American;native Americans;superstition; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I see a falling tear
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


CHILDREN OF LIR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We woke from our sleep in the bosom where
Last Line: Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the infinite lir.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Future Life; Happiness; Mythology - Celtic; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight


CHILDREN'S SONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Childhood, childhood where have you gone?
Last Line: Never come back. %never
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CHILL DAMPENS THEIR TEMPER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their wings limp
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CHIMERA, by DINO CAMPANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know not if among rocks
Last Line: And still I call you I call you chimera
Subject(s): Chimera (greek Mythology); Courts And Courtiers


CHORUS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely in no benignant mood
Last Line: The disenchanted ledges of old age.
Subject(s): Aging; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Youth


CHORUS, FR. THE CITY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aegina's foam is high and wild
Last Line: Propitiate the woodland pan.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


CHTHO(NIC, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CHURCH-COUNSELLOR PROMETHEUS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good sir paulus, noble robber
Last Line: Not one solitary candle!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


CICERONIS AMOR: LENTULUS'S DESCRIPTION OF TERENTIA, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brightsome apollo in his richest pomp
Last Line: And all this heaven was but terentia.
Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


CICERONIS AMOR: LOVE AND JEALOUSY, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When gods had framed the sweet of women's face
Last Line: Than love united to a jealous thought.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jealousy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations


CICERONIS AMOR: ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fond, feigning poets make of love a god
Last Line: And prove him but a boy not past the rod.
Variant Title(s): Love (cupid As A Child)
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros


CICERONIS AMOR: SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mars in a fury 'gainst love's brightest queen
Last Line: As can subdue the greatest god in arms.
Variant Title(s): Mars And Venus;venus Victrix
Subject(s): Charm; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mars (god); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


CINDER-FRUIT, by PAUL JEAN TOULET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the apple fruit
Last Line: It is ashen.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Passion; Tantalus (greek Mythology)


CINDERELLA, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apart from my sisters, estranged
Last Line: For her joyful heart.
Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Mythology - Classical; Oppression; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Solitude; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism


CINQUAIN: LAVA, by KENNETH CHING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Geysers
Last Line: Of pele!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Volcanoes


CINYRAS AND MYRRHA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor him alone produc'd the fruitful queen
Last Line: And, with her pains, reveng'd his mother's fires.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Death; Life; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The


CIRCE, DID YOU?, by MARILYN KALLET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Circe, like those siren sisters you warned of
Last Line: Circe, blown away
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Ulysses


CIRCUIT OF APOLLO, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo as lately a circuit he made
Last Line: Would be so imprudent, so dull or so blind, %to lose three parts in four amongst womankind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Apollo; Love; Mythology - Classical


CIRCUMAMBULATION OF MT. TAMALPAIS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking up and around the long ridge of tamalpais, 'bay
Last Line: Rings, right in the parking lot
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


CITIES FOR CARTER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend's city is filled with ghosts
Last Line: If I remember you. The pigeons are at war with air
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


CLEAR KEEN SONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CLEOBIS AND BITON; IN ARGOS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise to the queen of heaven, hera celestial fair!
Last Line: Nay! Pæans for the heroes borne to the life divine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


CLEOPATRA'S EDICT, by ALICE R. FRIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For all I know, every
Last Line: Make it happen. %that old blaze
Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mythology - Egyptian


CLIO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail, goddess! Queen of time's renowned estate
Last Line: And man, for love of thee, forgets his pain!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear to ask me, why I weep
Last Line: My answer to thy dubious verse.
Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Mythology - Classical; Riddles; Tears; Venus (goddess)


CLOSE BESIDE ME NOW AS I PRAY APPEARING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As in the old days
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CLYTEMNESTRA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning at last! At last the lingering day
Last Line: Destiny is over all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Clytemnestra (mythology)


CLYTEMNESTRA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh thou inspiring scepter of my spoon
Last Line: Something is fading blooming -- is it a fart or a departure
Subject(s): Clytemnestra (mythology)


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


COME DOWN FROM THE SKY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Share, in goblets laced with gold, %this potion that blends these ritual %delights
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME HOME, ICARUS!, by VICTOR THADDEUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O give him wings to soar on high!
Last Line: Give him wings!
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


COME NOW, MY HOLY LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Find your voice and speak to me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME OUT OF CRETE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME TO ME FROM CRETE, DOWN FROM HEAVEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Pour it like fine wine
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME TO ME NOW, YOU DELICATE GRACES AND YOU FAIRTRESSED MUSES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME TO ME ONCE MORE, O YOUR MUSES, LEAVING GOLDEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COME, HOLY TORTOISE SHELL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My lyre, and become a poem
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COMPANY OF HORSEMEN OR OF INFANTRY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Round shields and helmets
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COMPARES THE TROUBLES WHICH HE HAS UNDERGONE, TO LABOURS OF HERCULES, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not hercules himself did undertake
Last Line: Th' hesperian garden rob, and heav'n support.
Subject(s): Hercules; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical


COMRADE SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hold not in our power
Last Line: In vine-clad bowers drinking!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Muses; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Wine


CONSOLATION, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See phoebus breaking from the willing skies
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Apollo; Consolation; Mythology - Classical


CONTEMPLATION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is this, with that unerring step dares tempt the wilds
Last Line: By sorrow on a tomb-stone!
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


COOL REFLECTIONS DURING A MIDSUMMER WALK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O spare me -- spare me, phoebus! If, indeed
Last Line: Nymph of the stream, now take a grateful prayer.
Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Mythology - Classical; Nature - Religious Aspects; Paganism & Pagans; Prayer; Summer; Joy; Delight


CORONET OF CELERY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


COTTAGE GARDEN PRAYER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little garden gods
Last Line: Little garden gods!
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


COUCH OF DEATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The veiled evening walked solitary down the western hills
Last Line: Over the couch of death, and the youth breathes out his soul with joy into eternity
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plague


COUNTRY GODS, by COMETAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me, shepherd, tell me, pray
Last Line: Echo waits upon her lover.
Subject(s): Mythology


COUPLET, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great things are done when men and mountains meet
Last Line: This is not done by jostling in the street
Variant Title(s): To God;great Things Are Done
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Rudeness; Bad Manners


COVERS THE GROUND, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the great central valley's
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


COVERS THE GROUND, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the great central valley's
Last Line: Us and our stuff just covering the ground
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


CREPUSCULAR, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To open those locked doors of language
Last Line: Underwater I almost understand
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


CRETAN WOMEN ONCE DANCED THIS WAY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Treading the tender flowers of grass
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CROMEK, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A petty sneaking knave I knew
Last Line: O mr cromek, how do ye do?
Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology


CROMEK SPEAKS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I always take my judgment from a fool
Last Line: Amiable state he cannot feel at all
Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology


CROSS-LEGG'D, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cross-legg'd under the low tent roof
Last Line: We two be here what comes
Subject(s): Geology; Love; Mythology


CRY OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


CRYING ASIA! THAT FAMOUS PLACE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And things made of ivory
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


CULTIVATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crow's feather she tickled him with
Last Line: To her amusement and his decay.
Subject(s): Lies; Love; Mythology - Celtic


CUPID, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why was cupid a boy
Last Line: And away fled every joy.
Variant Title(s): Why Was Cupid A Boy
Subject(s): Bible; Cupid; Mythology; Eros


CUPID A PLOWMAN, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His lamp his bow and quiver laid aside
Last Line: What once europa was, nannette is now.
Variant Title(s): Cupid Turned Ploughman
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plowing & Plowmen; Eros


CUPID ACQUITTED, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever jove renews mankind
Last Line: And pray—what answer shall they make?
Subject(s): Cupid; Jupiter (god); Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CUPID AND GANYMEDE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In heaven, one holiday, you read
Last Line: And rise a swan, or fall a shower.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Love; Mythology; Troy; Eros; Paradise


CUPID AND VENUS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From bar to bar, from curb to curb I run
Last Line: As the kid, her blind pimp, eggs me on.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women; Women's Rights; Eros; Feminism


CUPID IN AMBUSH, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It oft to many has successful been
Last Line: And in the wounds he sees he bears his part.
Subject(s): Blood; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros


CUPID'S ARROWS, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At venus' entreaty for cupid her son
Last Line: His metal vulcan's cyclops sent from hell.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hate; Hope; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Eros; Optimism


CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roseate darling
Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CURLS ( ) PLACING THE LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DAEDALUS, by ALASTAIR REID    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son has birds in his head
Last Line: My son has birds in his head
Subject(s): Birds; Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Youth


DAEDALUS AND ICARUS, by ERASMUS DARWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With melting wax and loosened strings
Subject(s): Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical


DALUA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard you calling, dalua dalua!
Last Line: Dalua . . . Dalua . . . Dalua
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Elves


DANA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the tender voice calling 'away'
Last Line: Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Male-female Relations


DANA'S SKYLIGHT, by DEBORAH WARREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rather than die at a future grandson's hand
Last Line: In those golden arpeggios did she hear %the chromosomes sounding her father's coda
Subject(s): Mythology


DANAE, by MELODY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To be bathed in gold lights
Last Line: Where air is a liquid, the body a cup
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, brilliant with bright brass, the tower derides
Last Line: Above a million moving waves, appeared
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by ANDRAS PETOCZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watch her opening body
Last Line: Because beneath her skin danae reclined
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe it was that isolation of hers in the bronze
Last Line: The severed head of medusa that petrifies our enemies
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blew fresh and seaward made
Last Line: If I speak offending.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst, around her lone ark sweeping
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a shower of g(rain)
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a shower of g(rain)
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE ADRIFT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When she was set in her carven chest
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANAE AND PERSEUS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When in the wrought chest
Last Line: I speak, I pray you, forgive it me
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical; Perseus


DANAE'S CRADLE SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o hush thee, my child! Thy mother bends o'er thee"
Last Line: Mid grass and flow'rs thou wilt play again
Subject(s): Danae;mythology - Classical


DANAE'S LULLABY, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Child, my child, how sound you sleep
Last Line: And the breaking of the brine.
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


DANCE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Izanami %gave birth to rocks, trees, rivers, mountains, grass
Last Line: How far did she push her skirt down?
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


DANCERS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His high-flung noose had fallen
Last Line: And the lean wolves pair.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Dancing & Dancers; Mythology - Classical


DANCERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon appeared in all her fullness
Last Line: Crushing the soft flowering grass
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DANGER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DANGEROUS PASSING, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who ventures to the magic wood
Last Line: The magic of a star!
Subject(s): Mythology


DAPHNE, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know that face!
Last Line: Our warm unsullied vows.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's a tale from times called olden, further / qualified as golden
Last Line: Not a laurel, but a wall-flower—which is not an evergreen!
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Unrequited; Mythology


DAPHNE, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: They told her she had hair the color
Last Line: Silence turned and slept.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who loves me here and has my love
Last Line: Have told me I am fair to see
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Musing on the fate of daphne
Last Line: Travelling in the distance drear.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology); Love; Mythology


DAPHNE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you follow me?
Last Line: I am off; -- to heel, apollo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE, by RAD SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My legs shook. Hot breath scorched the back
Last Line: He only enjoyed the chase
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by GEORGE JESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You who know unrequited love, who know the tear of
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by NINA KOSSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will grow myself quiet leaves
Last Line: He is I: the ever-green song in flight, %the sun forever pursuing me
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by GEORGE MACY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You who know unrequited love, who know the tear of
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


DAPHNE; FOR GRAHAM ROBERTSON, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That white and wondrous city near the sea
Last Line: "that love has sacrificed thee to despair."
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology)


DAUGHTER OF KINGS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hail!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DAWN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DAWN WITH SMALL GOLDEN FEET, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun arises in the east
Last Line: Crownd with warlike fires & raging desires
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


DAYBREAK, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


DAYS OF 1931, by JAMES COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A ritual, he thinks, is something you continue to do long after it has lost
Last Line: He was wrong. Not one had that desire
Subject(s): Cavafy, Constantine P. (1863-1933); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Thebes, Greece


DE RERUM NATURE [ON THE NATURE OF THINGS]: INVOCATION OF VENUS, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great venus! Queene of beautie and of grace
Last Line: O gaunt that of my love at last I may not misse
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Variant Title(s): Prayer To Venu
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


DEAR BLACKBIRD, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little light, unsong, this turnstile stopped
Last Line: Rumble of expectation: it's going on %everywhere, not at all
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


DEATH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We toil and take our rest - we laugh and weep
Last Line: Dreams of strange regions, passing mortal taint.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fates (mythology); Life; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares


DEATHLESS APHRODITE OF DAZZLING THRONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Desires, accomplish for me, and do you yourself do battle with me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DECEMBER: OF APHRODITE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever the books may say, or the plausible
Last Line: In the hazel gold of her eyes, the world is green
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical


DEDICATION OF THE DESIGNS TO BLAIR'S GRAVE: TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The door of death is made of gold
Last Line: "the blossoms of eternal life!"
Subject(s): Bible; Blair, Robert (1699-1746); Mythology


DEEPEST OF THE GREAT LAKES, LARGEST TOO, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is this explained? First there is nothing
Last Line: Clearly. Blue midnight, blue of noon
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


DEFIANCE TO FALSE GODS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You do not like my altar-smoke
Last Line: And straightway must return to it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Praise; Prayer


DEIRDRE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not let any woman read this verse!
Last Line: The friend of that poor queen!
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


DEIRDRE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a story right, my wanderers
Last Line: And letting no boy lover take the sway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


DELICATE ADONIS DIES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And rend your robes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DELICATE GIRL, IN THE OLD DAYS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I strayed from you, and now again
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DELIO PATRI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more lake como's storied isle
Last Line: Their essence still remains the same.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Past; Roman Empire


DELIVERANCE OF AMATERASU, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: No mortal man can, without incongruity
Last Line: Little round mirror of polished metal
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Light; Mythology; Nature


DEMOGORGON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the devil of notre dame
Last Line: His world!
Subject(s): Charm; Dancing & Dancers; Devil; Mythology; Notre Dame University; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


DEMOS AND DIONYSUS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morning, demos
Last Line: Good morning, dionysus. Wait and see
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


DESIRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You came to me, when I lay aching
Last Line: Under the tender place what yearns
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DESIRE HAS SHAKEN MY MIND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Roars through trees
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DESIRE OF MAN BEING INFINITE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science


DESTROYER OF SHIPS, MEN, CITIES, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen of troy has sprung from hell
Last Line: And live dissatisfied.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


DIDO TO AENEAS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, on meander's banks when death is nigh
Last Line: Aeneas gave: the rest her arm supply'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Aeneas; Despair; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


DIDO'S CLOSING ARGUMENT, by ROBERT THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You look ridiculous in that armor. Your pink flesh
Last Line: I am my story. A burning scarf, a molten chalice, ashes %of a damask rose
Subject(s): Aeneas; History; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


DINNER BY THE AEGEAN, by BOB COOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Achilles with one leg and monk's attire
Last Line: I can see cities and wooden horses burning %in her voluptuous shadow
Subject(s): Achilles; Aegean Sea; Dinners And Dining; Mythology - Classical


DION, by CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They rescued five goddesses this year
Last Line: Since the earth is god I am not dust but god
Subject(s): Mythology


DIONYSIACA: HOW BACCHUS COMFORTS ARIADNE, by NONNUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then bacchus' subtle speech her sorrow crossed
Last Line: In type of that new crown assigned in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nonnos; Nonnus Of Panopolis
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


DIONYSIACA: HOW BACCHUS FINDS ADRIADNE SLEEPING, by NONNUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When bacchus first beheld the desolate
Last Line: Who stole my love of athens?' ...
Alternate Author Name(s): Nonnos; Nonnus Of Panopolis
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


DIONYSOS IN INDIA (OPENING FRAGMENT OF A LYRICAL DRAMA), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Verge of an upland glade among the himalayas
Last Line: They come! They come! . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; India; Mythology


DIONYSUS IN DOUBT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From earth as far away
Last Line: And there was no god there
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Greek


DISCRETIONS OF ALCIBIADES, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First frost is weeks off, but yj prudent man
Subject(s): Mythology; Adultery; Politics & Government


DIVINE IMAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesus said, 'wouldst thou love one who never died'
Last Line: Jesus will appear; and so he who wishes to see a vision, a perfect whole, %must see it in its minute
Variant Title(s): Written 181
Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mythology; Religion


DO I REALLY STILL LONG FOR VIRGINITY?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DON'T STIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The trash
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DON'T YOU REMEMBER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We, too, did such things in our youth
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The wandering
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DOUN GAES THE MUIN HERSEL, AN AA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nicht is nearin her mirkest hour %and yet mylane I lie
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations


DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's a health to the queen and a lasting peace
Last Line: "and they that won't with us comply, / down among the dead men let them lie"
Subject(s): Bacchus;blessings;courts & Courtiers;drinks & Drinking;mythology - Classical


DOWN FROM THE BLUE SKY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His shirt of phoenician red
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DOWN-HALL, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing not old jason, who travelled through greece
Last Line: Derry down, down, hey derry down.
Subject(s): Canterbury, England; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


DOWNWARD MY TEARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And a high wind blow him away
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DRAGONS ARE TOO SELDOM, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To actually see an actual marine monster
Last Line: Singers sing torture songs we sat around listening to the lo elei lorelising
Subject(s): Monsters; Sirens (mythology)


DREAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O dream on your black wings
Last Line: Now may I have %all these things
Variant Title(s): O Dream From The Blacknes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DREAM OF HEAVEN, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aged hare, the wintry toad
Last Line: The clear depth of the ocean %spilled from a cup
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


DRESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


DUNLANG O'HARTIGAN: LAMENT OF AOIBHELL, THE FAIRY QUEEN, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis my bitter grief and sorrow
Last Line: Dunlang o'hartigan!
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


DUSK AND WESTERN STAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hesperos, most beautiful %of stars
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EARRINGS DANGLING AND MILES OF DESERT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sagebrush (artemisia) is of the sunflower family
Last Line: I will think of you in my other poems
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


EARTH VERSE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wide enough to keep you looking
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


EARTH VERSE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wide enough to keep you looking
Last Line: Old enough to give you dreams
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


EARTH WITH HER MANY GARLANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is embroidered
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EARTH'S ANSWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth rais'd up her head / from the darkness dread and drear
Last Line: "that free love with bondage bound."
Subject(s): Bible; Earth; Mythology; Religion; World; Theology


EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow
Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise!
Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World


EARTHENWARE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those gourmets on olympus
Last Line: They palmed it off-gods, pimped us!- %thus dishing out our fate
Subject(s): Fate; Mythology


EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look here, marcus aurelius, we’ve come to see
Last Line: Ts tentacles sewing a rupture I had nursed for too long
Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Middle Age; Aging; Libya; Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Mythology; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives


ECHO, by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm voluble; I'm voiceless; I am echo: I reply
Last Line: But if you're silent, so am I. How well I mind my tongue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Archias
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO, by PAMELA GREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How see you echo? When she calls I see
Last Line: O echo!' (still the children call) 'where are you? %'air --'
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of sweet companions, mine, for choice
Last Line: She only speaks when spoken to.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO AND THE FERRY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven
Last Line: Comes after -- with laughter comes after.
Subject(s): Children; Churches; Echo (mythology); Ferry Boats; Childhood; Cathedrals


ECHO SONG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who can say where echo dwells
Last Line: Echo!
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In thy cavern-hall
Last Line: -- strange, sweet echo! Even like thee replying.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO TO A ROCK, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou heaven-threat'ning rock, gentler than she!
Last Line: Echo. Well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Stones; Granite; Rocks


ECLOGUE (VIGNETTE), by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chloe, the business done, begins to coil her hair
Last Line: And strephon strides away, whistling an idle air.
Subject(s): Mythology


EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 104. JOPAS'S SONG, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dido feasted first the wandering trojan knight
Last Line: For they have their two poles directly t'one to t'other . . .'
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers


EGOTISM OF PAN, by DAISY FAULKNER HICKERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the breath of the forest
Last Line: And the sundial's cycle hand.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


EKTOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ELWHA RIVER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a girl waiting by the roadside for my boyfriend to come in his
Last Line: There are no redwoods north of southern %curry county, oregon
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


ELYSIUM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair wert thou in the dreams
Last Line: Which could not yield one hope to sorrowing love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Elysium (mythology)


ELYSIUM, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While we in night lie hidden, there in the world below
Subject(s): Elysium (mythology)


ELYSIUM, by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She dwelleth in lysium; there
Last Line: Like shapes that issue from the grove, %arcadian, dedicate to jove
Alternate Author Name(s): Pinkney, Edward Coote
Subject(s): Elysium (mythology)


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 22. 'TIS HONOURABLE TO BE LOVE'S MARTYR, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear up against her scorns: 'tis brave to die
Last Line: For 'twas love's martyrdom made him a god.
Subject(s): Hercules; Love; Martyrs; Mythology - Classical


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 39. WON BY SUBTILTY, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life and a dearer mistress is the prize
Last Line: And a gold pippin wins a maidenhead.
Subject(s): Atalanta; Courtship; Hippomenes (mythology); Racing


EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mules, I think, will not be here this hour
Last Line: The stars in their calm.
Subject(s): Apollo; Courage; Death; Mythology - Classical; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


END OF THE SONG OF JERUSALEM, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All human forms identified, even tree, metal, earth, and stone; all
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


ENDEAVOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We saw him from our guarded wall
Last Line: Than never to have dared!
Subject(s): Ambition; Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ENDLESS NIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has set
Last Line: Midnight. Time passes. %I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ENDLESS STREAMS AND MOUNTAINS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clearing the mind and sliding in
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


ENDLESS STREAMS AND MOUNTAINS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clearing the mind and sliding in
Last Line: Streams and mountains never stay the same
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


ENGLISH ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART (FIRST READING), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you mean to please every body you will
Last Line: Of lighting a lamp when you dont wish to see
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology


EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of h's birth this was the happy lot
Last Line: His mother on his father him begot
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The errors of a wise man make your rule
Last Line: Rather than the perfections of a fool
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


EPIGRAM. ON EROS PLOUGHING, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His torch and quiver down sly eros flung
Last Line: "the harvest, or I'll yoke europa's bull."
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plowing & Plowmen; Eros


EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve
Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery


EPIGRAM: 46, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Venus, in sport, to please therewith her dear
Last Line: I, I for you am weapon fit and trim.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Dead, The


EPILOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Graves they say are warm'd by glory
Last Line: Such as homer sang is zero.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Graves; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones


EPILOGUE TO PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLITUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies, to-night your pity I implore
Last Line: And spare poor phaedra for ismena's sake.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soul; Women


EPIPHANY ABOUT GONGYLA, HERMES, AND HADES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gongyla, is there no sign of you? No epiphany
Last Line: With lotus, the dewy banks %of the river of hades
Variant Title(s): An Epiphany About Gongyla, Hermes And Hade
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EPITAPH: JOHN TROT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies john trot, the friend of all mankind
Last Line: But now they stand in every bodies way
Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology


EPITHALAMIUM, SELS., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy bridegroom, hesper brings
Last Line: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Wedding Song


ERECHTHEUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother of life and death and all men's days
Last Line: And friendship and fame of the sea.
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy; Dead, The


EROS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eros, shaking under my rib cage
Last Line: My sweet, my bitter, unimaginable beast
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in my %heart I %see clearly
Last Line: Etched %by love
Variant Title(s): Now In My / Heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS ARRIVED FROM HEAVEN WRAPPED IN A PURPLE MANTLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS SEIZES AND SHAKES MY VERY SOUL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shaking ancient oaks
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS SHOOK ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like wind exploding on mountain oak
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS THE LIMB-LOOSENER SHAKES ME AGAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That sweet, bitter, impossible creature
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS WEAVER OF MYTHS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eros bringer of pain
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS, CHILD OF GEA AND OURANOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EROS, WEAVER OF TALES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ETAIN THE QUEEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see with the eye of my mind where a lady sitteth
Last Line: For poets had honour and praise of kings when the world was young.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Marital; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


ETERNAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And be yourself my ally in the chase
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ETHINTHUS, QUEEN OF WATERS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ethinthus, queen of water, how thou shinest in the sky!
Last Line: Like the gay fishes on the wave, when the cold moon drinks the dew.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


ETYMOLOGY, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I understand her well because I too practice love
Last Line: That is a larger that.
Subject(s): Faith; Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Violence; Women's Rights; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism


EUMENIDES, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pythian
Last Line: Around him—kiss that kindest of sires!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Tragedy; Vengeance


EUROPA, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May the foemen's wives, the foemens' children
Last Line: "henceforth shall bear."
Subject(s): Household Employees; Mythology - Classical; Shame; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids


EUROPA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The full moon is so fierce that I can count the
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


EUROPA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The full moon is so fierce that I can count the
Last Line: Like drops still quivering on his matted hide, %the hooves and horn-points anagrammed in stars
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


EUROPE A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five windows light the cavern'd man: thro' one he breathes the air
Last Line: Call'd all his sons to the strife of blood.
Subject(s): Bible; Europe; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology


EURYDICE, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it that he sings to thee
Last Line: O poor eurydice, o my beloved one!
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Loss; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness


EURYDICE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen
Last Line: And was the way out for me, my love
Subject(s): Greece; Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Love; Death; Grief; Greeks


EURYDICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries
Last Line: Wait, and see hell yield up eurydice.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mythology - Classical; Night; Orpheus; Tears; Nightmares; Bedtime


EUTERPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Muse of the mystic flute and purling stream
Last Line: That speaks the tempest or the lisping flower.
Subject(s): Birds; Euterpe (goddess); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature


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


EVENING, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, hesper, bringest homeward all
Last Line: The children to their mother's side.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Evening; Love; Mythology - Classical; Sunset; Twilight


EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hesper, thou bringest home all that radiant dawn has scattered
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening star, you are the one
Last Line: And gather the wild. %back to the mother you bring her child
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVENING STAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hesperos, you bring home all the bright dawn scattered
Last Line: Bring home the goat, bring the child home to her mother
Variant Title(s): Hesperos, You Bring Home All The Bright Dawn Disperse
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVENING, YOU BRING BACK ALL THAT THE DAWN SACTTERS ABROAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You bring back the goat, your bring to its mother the child
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVENING: AN ELEGY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo now, sol's carman, drives his stud
Last Line: I, blessed with learning, takes a pen and writes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Apollo; Evening; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Sunset; Twilight


EVENSONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things thou bringest, hesper, that the bright dawn did part
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If moral virtue was christianity %christ's pretensions were all vanity
Last Line: Both read the bible day & night, %but thou read'st black where I read white
Variant Title(s): The New La
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity


EVOE!, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many are the wand-bearers
Last Line: Hears now this song of mine.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers


EXPELLED, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm gradually graduating
Last Line: Intellects term, song!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sleep


EXPERIMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast a lap full of seed
Last Line: Some stinking weed
Variant Title(s): "o Lapwing;""thou Hast A Lap Full Of Seed"";
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters


FAIR ELEANOR, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower
Last Line: She hugg'd it to her breast, and groan'd her last.
Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology


FAIRIES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden-poet, come with me
Last Line: Innocent and overgrown?
Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Elves


FAIRY FOOT, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once I had it too
Last Line: Dryad of the beech!
Subject(s): Dryads; Fairies; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Elves


FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is blue and scarlet on my page,
Subject(s): Reading; Mythology; Dreams; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Burials


FALLING DOWNWARD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FALSE NOCTURNE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which wonder I believed in, wandering
Last Line: Marine, a sea at boil. Perhaps
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


FAR BELOW, PLOWED FIELDS..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far below, plowed fields vibrated
Last Line: An emptiness he could fill with song.
Variant Title(s): "far Below, Plowed Fields"";
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


FAR MORE MELODIOUS THAN THE HARP, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: More golden than gold
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FAR MORE MELODIOUS THAN THE LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: More golden than gold
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FAREWELL TO NARCISSUS, by ROBERT HORAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farewell to narcissus who mistook %his face in the brine brook
Last Line: Nothing now shall leave, now nothing more shall enter
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


FAREWELL, O BRIDE, FAREWELL O HONORED GROOM, FAREWELL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FATE OF ACTAEON, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I be punished more severely
Last Line: Own dogs - what fate now awaits me?
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Mythology - Classical


FAUST BOOK: DESIRES TO HAVE AS HIS PARAMOUR HELEN OF TROY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sweet helen, make me immortal with a kiss
Last Line: She thought her function was to classicize
Subject(s): Faust; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy


FAUST BOOK: HELEN VANISHES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: But she's fading away
Last Line: But she never returned
Subject(s): Faust; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


FEET OF THE DOORKEEPER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ten shoemakers worked to stitch them
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FEMALE WILL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What may man be? But what may woman be
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


FESTIVAL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FIELDS TOOK ON..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fields took on their final
Last Line: With vanishing...
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Fields; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


FINDING THE SPACE IN THE HEART, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I first saw it in the sixties
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


FINDING THE SPACE IN THE HEART, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I first saw it in the sixties
Last Line: Tip drawn to a point, %lifts away
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


FINE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS, by ERASMUS DARWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gigantic nymph! The fair kleinhovia reigns
Last Line: And bears her trembling lover in her arms.
Subject(s): Giants; Hercules; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs


FIRST NEWS OF SPRINGTIME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lovesong of the nightingale
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FISHERIES SCIENTIST SIGHTS A LARGE SCHOOL OF MYTH SWIMMING IN..., by PETER MUNRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cut the outboard %silence opens out
Last Line: The sudden strike flashed out of nowhere %and I am caught
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Mythology; Water; Winter


FIVE FEELINGS FOR ORPHEUS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus sits on the strumming esplanade
Subject(s): Mythology – Classical; Orpheus


FLIGHT OF HELEN; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such sudden leaving
Last Line: Your thought-begotten ills
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


FLORENTINE INGRATITUDE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir joshua sent his own portrait to
Last Line: Never can have any to sir jehoshuan
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792)


FLORILEGIUM, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each day the purple clematis climbs further up the wire beside the kitchen door
Last Line: When he forced her mother, the sweet nymph cleomine
Subject(s): Flowers; Mythology - Classical


FLOWERS FOR THE GRACES, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weave garlands, maiden, from the strands
Last Line: But turn aside from the ungarlanded.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical


FLOWING, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Head doused under the bronze
Last Line: Making this poem
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


FOOL, DON'T TRY TO BEND A STUBBORN HEART, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 1. CYCLAMEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the tresses, blown
Last Line: A picture -- a flower!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Persephone; Women; Proserpine; Proserpina


FOR APHRODITA, THIS PURPLE HANDKERCHIEF, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: An honored gift from phokaia
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR EVEN THEN, WHEN YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The road to high olympos %( ) men
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR MADAME, by ISAAC DE BENSERADE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When you behold your graciousness and glory
Last Line: With these three goddesses that in her soul unite.
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


FOR ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor the bee
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR MY MOTHER SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the children of kleanax %horribly wasted
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR SPRING, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What mask [or, masque] of what old wind-withered new year
Last Line: These mummers of that wind-withered new-year?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Spring; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano


FOR THE 'MOUCHE', by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a dream. It was a summer's night
Last Line: And I awoke at last in desperation.
Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Mythology; Religion; Statues; Nightmares; Theology


FOR THE SAKE OF THE OLD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Voice ( ) %before
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR THEY SAY THAT LEDA ONCE FOUND A HYACINTH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Colored egg, all covered
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR WHEN I SEE YOU OPPOSITE ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And to liken you to tawny-haired helen is not unseemly at all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR YOU WERE ONCE A CHILD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: There is no road
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOR YOU, O BRIDEGROOM, THERE WAS NEVER ANOTHER GIRL LIKE THIS ONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FORD AT THE RIVER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOREST HISTORY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in
Last Line: Nor let the poet's awe in rapture wane.
Subject(s): Forests; History; Mythology; Woods; Historians


FOREVER AMBROSIA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calypso %is a bit of a dipso
Last Line: Okay; I'll help you build a raft
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Calypso (mythology)


FOREVER DEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death shall be death forever unto thee
Last Line: Among the shadowy, averted dead.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


FORGOTTEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead shalt thou lie; and nought
Last Line: No friendly shade thy shade shall company!
Variant Title(s): Sapphic Fragment
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The


FORSAKEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moon's set, and pleiads
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FORTUNATE BRIDEGROOM, NOW THE MARRIAGE THAT YOU PRAYED FOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Aphrodite has honored you beyond all others
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FOUR FATES, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The greeks had words for them. They were the parcae:
Last Line: Beyond the darkness interwoven with stars
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


FOUR ZOAS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath
Last Line: The dark relisions are departed and sweet science reigns
Variant Title(s): Vala, Or The Four Zoas, Sels
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter


FOURFOLD AND TWOFOLD VISION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The visions of eternity, by reason of narrowed perceptions
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To his sweet lute apollo sung the motions of the spheres
Last Line: And phœbus' right-revenged grudge.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pan (mythology)


FRAE THE AIOLIC O PSAPPHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Caller rain frae abune
Last Line: And sleep faas drappan doun
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations


FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit, who lov'st britannia's isle
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


FRAGMENT, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that my sire had brought me up to feed
Last Line: Injurious drones have harmed the honey-bees.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT 105(A), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You: an achilles' apple
Last Line: Poised beyond their reach
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT 105(C), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my mountain hyacinth
Last Line: A scarlet stain upon the earth
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mourn adonis dead - loveliest adonis
Last Line: That
Variant Title(s): Lament For Adonis
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 100, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And wrapped her well
Last Line: With delicate linen
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 101, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crimson scented scarves
Last Line: Expensive gifts
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 102, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, I cannot strike my loom. I'm undone
Last Line: By my love for a boy by delicate aphrodite
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 106, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Superior, as the lesbian bard to foreigners
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 107, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do I long still for my maidenhood?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 113, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For there never was another girl
Last Line: O bridegroom, like this one
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 117, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-bye to the bride! Good-bye to the groom!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 118, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But come
Last Line: Take voice
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 120, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For I am not spiteful
Last Line: Of an innocent child
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 122, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A delicate girl
Last Line: Plucking buds
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 123, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In golden sandals dawn
Last Line: Had just come to me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 124, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You yourself, kalliope
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 125, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I myself wove garlands once
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 128, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now come, o delicate graces
Last Line: And muses of lovely hair
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 130, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love that looses my limbs shakes me again
Last Line: The bittersweet, irresistible, creeping thing
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 131, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atthis, you've come to hate the thought of me
Last Line: You go fluttering after andromeda now
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 133, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Andromeda makes a fair exchange
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 134, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I spoke with you
Last Line: O kypros-born
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 135, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, o irana
Last Line: The swallow
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 136, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Messenger of spring
Last Line: The nightingale
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 142, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leto and niobe were best of friends
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 143, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden pulse bloomed upon the shore
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 144, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With more
Last Line: Of gorgo
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 145, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't move the pebble piles
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 146, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For me neither honey nor bee
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 147, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone, I say
Last Line: Will remember us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 151, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The black sleep of the night
Last Line: Cloaks my eyes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 152, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mingled with colors of every kind
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 158, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware the vainly barking tongue
Last Line: When rage spreads in the chest
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 159, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You and my servant love
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 161, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Guard her, bridgegrooms
Last Line: Kings of citadels
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 166, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say that leda once
Last Line: An egg of hyacinthine %blue
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 167, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whiter far than an egg
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 168, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For adonis, woe
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 168C, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brindled the earth
Last Line: Of many wreaths
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 192, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goblets, gold-bossed
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 29, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gorgo's necklace and robes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 32, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who brought me honor
Last Line: With the gift of their works
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 33, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O aphrodite of the golden wreath
Last Line: I wish that such luck were mine!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 35, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Either panormos or kypros or paphps
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 39, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An embroidered shoe
Last Line: Covered her foot
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 40, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sacrifice to you
Last Line: Of a white goat
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 41, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toward you beautiful girls
Last Line: My thought is unalterable
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 42, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart of the doves grows chill
Last Line: And they slacken their wings
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 44, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A herald came, idaios, the swift messenger
Last Line: In their happiness exactly like the heavenly gods
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 46, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon luxurious cushions
Last Line: I'll lay my limbs down
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 47, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love shook
Last Line: Batters the oak
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 48, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You came, and I was mad for you
Last Line: But you chilled my heart aflame with desire
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 51, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not what to do
Last Line: I'm of two minds
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 52, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I couldn't hope
Last Line: With my two hands
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 53, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosy-armed graces
Last Line: Come here to us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 54, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love came from heaven
Last Line: Clad in crimson cloak
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGMENT: 91, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Irana, I've never come upon
Last Line: Anyone more distainful than you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRAGOLETTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love! What shall be said of thee?
Last Line: The feet of love.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Nightmares


FRIEND, YOU ARE GONE, BUT REMEMBER ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Honestly, I wish I were dead!
Last Line: No sound, %no grove
Variant Title(s): Honestly I Whish I Were Dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRIENDSHIP, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay, sweet, %your head
Last Line: You love
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FRINGED GENTIAN, by ANNE ARNOLD CHASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun-god, reaching down
Last Line: We knelt and worshipped.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sun


FROM BLAKE'S ENGRAVING OF THE LAOCOON, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spiritual war: isreal delivered from egypt is art deliver'd from natre
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


FROM ROSY BOWERS, by THOMAS D'URFEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: From rosy bowers, where sleeps the god of love
Last Line: Ere thus, in vain, adore.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


FROM SAPPHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou liest dead, -- lie on: of thee
Last Line: Shall find in thee a lover lost.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The


FROM THE ANNOTATIONS TO BISHOP BERKELEY'S SIRIS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesus considered imagination to be the real man and says
Last Line: Which blinds the eye of imagination, the real man
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


FROM THE GREEK, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great bacchus, born in thunder and in fire
Last Line: The moral says; mix water with your wine.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Wine


FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF ANNE VERVEINE, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When his dogs leapt on actaeon, he
Subject(s): Mythology; Love - Erotic; Relationships; Art & Artists


FROM THE WORLD OF MATTER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The given made here, the made, given
Last Line: The aperture of afternoon
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


FROST AND MOON, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When first I heard the migrating geese
Last Line: A contest of beauty and grace
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


FULL MOON, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Off in the twilight hung the low full moon
Last Line: Trampling the tender bloom of the soft grass.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


FULL MOON, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the fair moon stars veil their heads
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


FULL MOON APPEARED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All around the altar
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GANYMEDE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Filled full of madness, flushed and stained with
Last Line: Jove leans and drains his revel-stained wine- %cup, %waves me to his side, and I dare not stay
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology)


GANYMEDE, by JOHN SPENCER MUIRHEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: From lowland valleys came ganymede
Last Line: Blinded, old, and maim.
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Oxford University


GANYMEDE, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crested and ruffed and stiff with whistling frills
Last Line: Big bird sensation, missing local boy
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Homosexuality


GANYMEDE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swift from the chase jove's towering eagle bears
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology)


GANYMEDE AND HELEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In taurus was the sun and flowery spring
Last Line: While all who sin thus show repentance deep. %and if ever I should sin so, lord, have mercy!
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Helen Of Troy; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


GARDEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There the cool water ripples
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that a single sigh could fall
Last Line: When love world-wide has shown his mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hesperides (mythology)


GARDEN OF THE NYMPHS, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cool waters tumble, singing as they go
Last Line: My soul entrancing.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mythology - Classical


GENTLE OF VOICE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With honey in her words
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GEOLOGY OF WATER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Striated tides draw their lines
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


GEOLOGY OF WATER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Striated tides draw their lines
Last Line: Ocean to ocean till there's no water left
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come
Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans


GIRGENTI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many here have struggled, fought the fight!
Last Line: Defeated always -- but how splendidly!
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Dead, The


GIRL PICKING A FLOWER JUST OPENED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GIRL WITH THE PLEASING VOICE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GIRLHOOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like %the wild- %flower
Last Line: Its petalled %print
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GLORIA PATRI, by HARVEY C. GRUMBINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What powerful urging / sent holy ghost
Last Line: His beard around his smiling girls?
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


GLORY, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted names
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Pindar (522-440 B.c.); Poetry & Poets


GLOW AND BEAUTY OF THE STARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When in her roundness she burns silver %about the world
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GNOMIC VERSES, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


GOD OF THE WINDS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a god of winds that are!
Last Line: —s. D. State fair, second prize. 1932
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Wind


GOD-DESS LOVE, by THOMAS F. GREEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poets of old ne-er fore-told of life controll-ed
Last Line: Adop-ted by fathers who cheered words in rhyme.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


GODDESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the succulent world, she opens each morning
Last Line: Late at night
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


GODDESS, by DOROTHY O'GARA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love was my taper. To this shrine of mine
Last Line: I knelt too near the flame -- and I am blind!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Shrines


GODDESS, by SONG YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The time was past twilight
Last Line: I shed tears in my wretchedness %and kept seeking her until the dawn
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


GODDESS OF LIGHT, by SATRA. ANNA NAOMI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once again, o goddess of light!
Last Line: Turn to you from everlasting night.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Peace


GODDESS OF PERSUASION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Daughter of aphrodita
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GODDESS OF THE LUO, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was on my return from the capital
Last Line: Then I pull up the reins and set by my whip, %I hung in there in sorrow, I could not go on
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


GODDESS, I SPOKE WITH YOU IN A DREAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Cyprus-born aphrodite
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GODS ( ) TEARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GOLDEN CHICKPEAS GREW ALONG THE SHORE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GOLDEN FLEECE: A DOCUMENTARY, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw dried-up old women on my television
Last Line: A reminding %and nourishing shock
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology)


GOLDEN GOBLETS WITH KNUCKLEBONE STEMS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GONGLYA / I SAID, 'O LORD', by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of acheron %where the lotus grows
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GONGYLA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: On the banks of acheron.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GOODNIGHT, ACHILLES, by ENRIQUE LIHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So, we got you in the heel
Last Line: Goodnight, achilles
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


GRACES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You, at least
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GRACES O WITH WRISTS LIKE THE WILD ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come among us, daughters of god
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GRANT, O / KYPRIS, AND NEREIDS TOO, THAT ALL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And may he wish to make his sisted endowed %with honor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GREEK MYTHOLOGY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could we, though but for an hour, burst through those gates adamantine
Last Line: As it now is, it is only the tomb of an ancient existence?
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


GROWING OLD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Kalliope %feel
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


GWIN, KING OF NORWAY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, kings and listen to my song
Last Line: The pleasant south country.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Revolutions


HACONAMAL, by EYVIND SKALDA-SPILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gondul and skogul / the gods of the goths sent
Last Line: Sunk have many to slaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eyvindr Finnsson SkÁldaspilli
Subject(s): Goths; Mythology


HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork
Last Line: Earth / loves to love
Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork
Last Line: Tangled in fall flood streams
Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature


HAIL, BRIDE!, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Long life!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HAND BAG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HAPPY SONGS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


HAUGHTIER THAN A HORSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: More than you do me?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: AT THE TAVERN OF MESSER ANGELO ON VIA CANALE, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The colossal nudes, hercules
Last Line: Against such a force?
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Courts And Courtiers; Goddesses And Gods; Love; Mythology; Paintings And Painters


HE GLEAMS LIKE A GOD THAT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I appear little %by little in my loss to have died; %tested in every way since even ... %..........
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE IS ALMOST A GOD, A MAN BESIDE YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So poor I've nothing to lose, I must gamble
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE IS DYING, CYTHEREA, ADONIS THIS DELICATE. WHAT SHALL WE DO?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beat your breasts, girls, and tear your clothes.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE IS DYING, KYTHEREA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tear your dresses
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE IS MORE THAN A HERO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is a god in my eyes
Last Line: Death isn't far from me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE LEADETH ME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When cloudless and sunlit skies o'erspread
Last Line: "I say: ""dear father, lead me on."
Subject(s): Asia; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Far East; East Asia; Orient


HE SEEMS TO BE A GOD, THAT MAN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But endure, even this grief of love
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE WHO IS FAIR IS FAIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In time be also fair
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HE WHO SEES THE INFINITE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science


HEADACHE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Headache! Thou bane to pleasure's fairy spell
Last Line: For ever jingle wisdom's funeral knell.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hate; Headaches; Mythology; Wisdom


HEART, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Caressed
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HECUBA: A CHORUS, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath
Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains!
Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HECUBA: CHORUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by EURIPIDES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ilion, o my city
Last Line: I hope she is wrecked and drowned. %she ruined me
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy


HEKATE, THE SHINING GOLD ATTENDANT OF APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HELEN, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All greece hates / the still eyes in the white face
Last Line: White ash amid funereal cypresses.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


HELEN, by EDWARD ABRAM UFFINGTON VALENTINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sits within the white oak hall
Last Line: And helen feeds the flames as long ago!
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


HELEN OF TROY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn
Last Line: Lo, I shall live to conquer greece again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy


HELEN TO PARIS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When loose epistles violate chast eyes
Last Line: And may hereafter better news impart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Letters; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paris (mythology); Translating & Interpreting


HELEN'S BEAUTY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That lady, chiefest slave of love her lord
Last Line: When april's gone, october bringeth tears.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Goddesses & Gods; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Tears; Youth


HELEN'S BURNING, by LAURA RIDING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her beauty, which we talk of
Last Line: And lose the gift of prophecy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


HELEN'S CUP, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the potent draught that helen poured
Last Line: Oh, let me drift and dream, and fall on sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Sleep


HELEN'S EYE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Troy's towering roof has tumbled
Last Line: The past murmurs back something %foreign as a bird in helen's eye
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


HELEN'S RAPE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hers was the last authentic rape
Last Line: Of the continual battle's sound
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


HELIADES: ZEUS, BRAZEN THUNDER-HURLER, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zeus is the air, zeus earth, and zeus the sky
Last Line: Zeus is everything, and all that's more than these.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Religion; Zeus; Theology


HELLENICS: ON THE HELLENICS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back, ye wandering muses, come back home
Last Line: Temper a graver with a lighter song.
Variant Title(s): Proem To Hellenics
Subject(s): Muses; Mythology - Classical


HER GIFTS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More music %than the harp
Last Line: Than gold
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HER HEART SO STRICKEN, HELEN, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Noble, olive-skinned men all slaughtered %on her behalf
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


HER SHOES WERE LEATHER AND FROM ASIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rich lydian patterns across the toes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERA, HUNG FROM THE SKY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hang by my heels from the sky
Last Line: I dangle, drowned in fire.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Women's Rights; Convicts; Feminism


HERACLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now heracles performed many more great labors
Last Line: From which curly head poured rivulets of the clearest water
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Peloponnesus, Greece


HERACLES AND MELEAGER, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Text                    
First Line: He, who could sack a gated town
Last Line: To golden cypris' magic will.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Hercules; Meleager (100 B.c.); Mythology - Classical


HERCULES ON OETA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O father of the gods, whose thunderbolt
Last Line: More boldly then thy father jove himself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


HERCULES SPINNING, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bond slave to omphale
Last Line: And beauty yields to love.
Subject(s): Hercules; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Again
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERE ARE FIND GIFTS, CHILDREN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet I love refinement, and beauty and light %are for me the same as desire for the sun
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERMAPHRODITES IN THE GARDEN, by STANLEY MOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the lesson of the serpent there is the lesson
Last Line: A red and purple sunrise blinds me
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


HERMAPHRODITUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift up thy lips, turn round, look back for love
Last Line: Au musee du louvre, mars 1863.
Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Love; Mythology


HERMES CAME TO ME IN A DREAM. I SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To die, and to watch the dewy lotus %along the banks of acheron, river of hell
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HERMES OF THE PLAYGROUND, by NICIAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine is cyllene's mountain steep
Last Line: With hyacinth and rosemary.
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


HERMES, THE TRICKSTER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wing born of bone, tear in my sky
Last Line: Ripped from my side, I hear your friends %call you little wing
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology); Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


HESIONE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In silence slept the mossy ground
Last Line: Celestial hope will dawn with day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Hesione (mythology)


HESPERIDES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thy soul, herrick, dwelt with me
Last Line: And polished as the bosom of a star.
Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Hesperides (mythology); Poetry & Poets


HESPERIDES, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the blue rim of the world
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology); Nature


HESPERIDES, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden apples for goddesses
Last Line: I will have none.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology)


HESPERIDES, by VERNON L. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, for the wiles of the fortunate isles
Last Line: And the gold of my southern seas!
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology)


HESPERUS THE BRINGER, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O hesperus, thou bringest all good things
Last Line: Thou bring'st the child too to its mother's breast.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


HIGH IN THE CHARIOT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Against all the outlanders
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HIM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Becomes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HIPPOPOTAMUS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was through a stroke of luck that she found the hippopotamus
Last Line: The woman sighing as she watched the massive beast sigh
Subject(s): Fantasy; Monsters; Mythology


HIS DREAM: THE BLACK TREE/THIRST, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her, out past the first
Last Line: "from what deep well."
Variant Title(s): His Dream: The Black Tree/ Thirst
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


HIS GRIEF, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my words / I'll make rocks
Last Line: To make them sing.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


HIS LAMENT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is it she lies here
Last Line: Could pearl a piece of dust.
Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The


HIS WHOLE LIFE IS AN EPIGRAM SMART, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


HIS WIFE, TO ATLAS -- (OR ANY MAN OF AFFAIRS), by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The burden of the world upon your back
Last Line: Bearing the world—and you, too—on my heart!
Subject(s): Atlas (mythology); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou chronicle of crimes! I read no
Last Line: As sidney in his hall of bliss may love.
Subject(s): Greece; History; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Greeks; Historians


HISTORY LESSONS: IKONIUM, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the flood sent to phrygia by zeus
Last Line: New race the gods prayed might grow fair, strong, and %pious
Subject(s): Mythology


HISTORY OF BRITAIN: DIANA'S REPLY TO BRUTUS, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brutus, far to the west, in the ocean wide
Last Line: And kings be borne of thee, whose dreaded might %shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical


HOLINESS OF MINUTE PARTICULARS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And many conversed on these things as they labour'd at the furrow
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this a holy thing to see
Last Line: Nor poverty the mind appall.
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty


HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a holy thursday, their innocent faces clean
Last Line: Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty


HOMERIC HYMN: TO HERMES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of hermes sing, o muse, the son of zeus and maia
Last Line: Hail to thee thus, son of zeus and maia, of thee shall I be mindful and of another lay
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


HOMERIC TO PAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard among the solitary hills
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


HONESTLY I'D AS SOON BE DEAD!, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No occasion, with us away, %no grove...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HONESTLY, I WOULD LIKE TO DIE.', by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not a grove or a dance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HONOUR AND GENIUS IS ALL I ASK, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


HOPE OF LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All night long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HORSES IN FLOWERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out of crete
Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine
Subject(s): Animals; Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Horses; Love; Mythology - Classical


HOST OF HORSEMEN, SOME SAY, IS THE LOVELIEST SIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than lydian chariots battling in armament
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HOUSE OF CHILDHOOD, by GREGORY ORR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From her sewing nook, nothing finished
Last Line: Wanted love live out their lives
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mytholgy)


HOW THE WOMAN LOST HER POWER: 1. KITE, by VASSO KALAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: With tremendous power
Last Line: Her signs intoxicate them. %ah mitis
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Women


HOW THE WOMAN LOST HER POWER: 2. MITIS, by VASSO KALAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beautiful mitis
Last Line: Took her strength, %the lord of all
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


HOW TO KNOW LOVE FROM DECEIT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love to faults is always blind
Last Line: And forges fetters for the mind
Subject(s): Bible; Duplicity; Love - Nature Of; Mythology; Deceit


HUMAN IMAGE, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


HUMILITY AND DOUBT, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God wants not man to humble himself
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


HUMP BACKED FLUTE PLAYER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of pinyon %pine
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


HYMN 3. ARTEMIS VISITS THE CYCLOPES, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At once, she went, and found the cyclopes
Last Line: The child dives for her mother's lap, eyes covered.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


HYMN OF APOLLO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sleepless hours who watch me as I lie
Last Line: Victory and praise in their own right belong.
Variant Title(s): Song Of Appolo
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


HYMN OF PAN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the forests and highlands
Last Line: At the sorrow of my sweet pipings.
Variant Title(s): The Song Of Pan
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


HYMN TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave crete for this holy temple
Last Line: Immortal nectar in golden cups, %fill all with sudden ecstasy
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical


HYMN TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Star-throned incorruptible aphrodite
Last Line: Have done, do thou; be thou for my thyself too %help in the battle
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


HYMN TO APOLLO, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo great, whose beams the greater world do
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


HYMN TO ARTEMIS, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sing a hymn to artemis, for it is
Last Line: And graciously, please, receive my song to you
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical


HYMN TO HORUS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, god revived in glory
Last Line: Rest from the long, long way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Mythology - Egyptian


HYMN TO PAN, by H. O. WISE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woods are very still at noon
Last Line: Lest the god pan...
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


HYMN TO POSEIDON, by ARION    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mighty god poseidon, thee I sing
Last Line: Into the darkling main.
Subject(s): Poseidon (mythology)


HYMN TO POSEIDON, by ARION    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mighty master of the ocean! %neptune of the golden trident!
Last Line: Scaled-tailed nereids, one with other %whereof amphitrite was moth
Subject(s): Poseidon (mythology)


HYMN TO THE NAIADS, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er yonder eastern hill the twilight pale
Last Line: And all profaner audience far remove.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


HYMN TO THE PENATES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet one song more! One high and solemn strain
Last Line: Lives the pure song of liberty and truth.
Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Teaching & Teachers; Inspiration; Creativity


HYMN TO VENUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Muse, sing the deeds of golden aphrodite
Last Line: Like wasting fire her senses wild among.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


HYMN TO VENUS. AS THE VIRGINS PASS TO HER GUARDIANSHIP, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be at hand at your rites, dear venus
Last Line: Girdle breathes. By whatever your adonis %once said or did to you
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


HYMN: 2. TO APOLLO, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hah! How the laurel, great apollo's tree
Last Line: Adown the mountains where thy daughters haunt.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Envy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Youth


HYPERBOREAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ruined temples. Poetry. Zbigniew herbert
Last Line: You learned the lyre from him and kept it tuned
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


I, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the little girls
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I AM APHRODITA OF THE SHIFTING EYES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My servants are eros and you, my sappho
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I AM WILLING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I BID YOU, TAKE YOU LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I made this prayer to her
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I COME FORWARD, TELL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I DO NOT THINK THAT ANY GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will be skilled as you in her heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I DON'T EXPECT TO TOUCH THE SKY WITH MY TWO HANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I HAVE TWO THOUGHTS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY I'M RUNNING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My mind is part this way, part that
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Long ago, when you were still %an ungainly little girl
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I GAVE YOU A WHITE GOAT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL: THE GOLDEN FLOWERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: - for her, I wouldn't take all lydia or sweet
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE A LOVELY DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'd not take all of lydia %nor even enchanting
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE NEITHER THE HONEY NOR THE BEE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE NO EMBROIDERED HEADBAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ribbon reminds me of those days %when our enemies were in exile
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE NOT ONE WORD FROM HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No woodlot bloomed in spring without song
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical


I HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT SELF-RESPECT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not stir up gossip with your tongue, insult %would not stream from your eyes-- %you might be talking
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of its beauty
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVED THEE, ATTHIS, IN THE LONG AGO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVED YOU ATHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved you athis, long ago
Last Line: But you lost innocence, glow %and me, as you gained grace and guile
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVED YOU ONCE, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without any grace
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I LOVED YOU ONCE, ATTHIS, LONG AGO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I MIGHT LEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I MISS YOU AND YEARN AFTER YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I PRAY TO VENUS, by ELIZABETH OF YORK    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is set upon a lusty pin
Last Line: This joy and I, I trust, shall never twin.
Subject(s): Contentment; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women


I PUT HERE, MY LAZY GIRL, THIS SOFT CUSHION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And if, with your blouse off, in your soft arms
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I THINK THAT SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER US IN ANOTHER TIME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU, ATIS, ONCE, LONG AGO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To me you seemed a little girl, and not too graceful
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WAS MOVING ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was moving down the bank / toward the boat, lost
Last Line: Chin propped on fists, listening.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


I WILL LET MY BODY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Flow like water over the gentle cushions
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WISH THE CHILD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Many a joy
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I WISH TO GO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


I'VE FOULED THE WEFT, THE WARP, AND THE SHUTTLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And by the slender aphrodita
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IBANT OBSCURAE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I saw three maidens on the beach
Last Line: They bound thy holy limbs, andromeda.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology)


ICARIUM MARE, by VINICIUS DE MORAES    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have heard of the undimmed air
Last Line: To gather tokens of the light %not in the bullion, but in the loose change
Subject(s): Christianity; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Religion


ICARUS, by EVELYN AHREND    Poem Source                    
First Line: On tremulous wings
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Those things I said about my steadfast peace
Last Line: So long as I may kiss thee once again?
Subject(s): Desire;icarus;love;mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by BRUCE AUFHAMMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He breathes, %chilled air like crystal wine soothes his ferrous thirst
Last Line: Yet his reckless vault %still rushes up the mind's young sky%like polaris
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by LESLIE BIENEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To think, when he entered the sea
Last Line: Ambition, not a fall from the grace of the sun %but a surrender to the pull of tides, to the moon
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by BUDDHADEV BOSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stainless, radiant day; the sea does not breathe
Last Line: Bought with his meager earnings, %thin and dry, %silently aware
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by RONALD BOTTRALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In his father's face flying
Last Line: Ambitious and viable, whose pride %will leave no trace in the quenching tide
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by PHILIPPE DESPORTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here fell the daring icarus in his prime
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heard'st thou that dying moan of ... Breath
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Impetuous, ocean winds whipping his sun-bright hair, what man with
Last Line: Doth stand forevermore upraised towards the azure of the sky.
Subject(s): Icarus; Love; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by VALENTIN IREMONGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As, even to-day, the airman, feeling the plane sweat
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Airplanes; Air Pilots


ICARUS, by VALENTIN IREMONGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As, even to-day, the airman, feeling the plane sweat
Last Line: Drifting in casually, one by one
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by ROBERT JONES (1616-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love wing'd my hopes and taught me how to fly
Last Line: It was the purest light of heav'n for whose fair love they fell.
Subject(s): Icarus; Love; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis something from that tangle to have won
Last Line: Good night!
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bind on thy wings, o soul! Their eagle flight
Last Line: A wingless lifetime on the level earth?
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by ROBIN MAGOWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of birth I remember only
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by JERRY MIRSKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To understand this story
Last Line: Picture a gate hanging open. %and let that gate be the sun
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a beautiful morning in spring
Last Line: When their darling was ravished away.
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All modern themes of poesy are spun so very fine
Last Line: And never try to scale the sky with other people's wings!
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by KENDRICK SMITHYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now on the shining
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Io triumphe! Lo, thy certain art
Last Line: Derision, and above hyperion shone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Flight; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Flying


ICARUS, by SUE TEIGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At that moment
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS, by DOUGLAS GREY WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Below him now in the distance
Last Line: Exulting, on his own %at last, began %the dizzying plunge
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS (TO THE LATE WOODROW WILSON), by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Icarus made himself wings
Last Line: Icarus made himself wings.
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


ICARUS AND THE LAD GRAYSTONE, by WERNER ASPENSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: After having read 73 (wonderful) poems on icarus
Last Line: And his sister, the stay-at-home daughter miss firbush, %lusterless but green forever
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS IN NOVEMBER, by ALEC BROCK STEVENSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a moment blind with light
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS IN WINTER, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If brueghel was wrong, and icarus fell in the dead of the year
Last Line: Stunted roots so far below sense that they don't show
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


ICARUS IN WINTER, by CAROL FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If brueghel was wrong, and icarus fell in the dead of the year
Last Line: Stunted roots so far below sense that they don't show
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS ON FIRE ISLAND, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two loves I have, each one
Subject(s): Fire Island; Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS ON FIRE ISLAND, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two loves I have, each one
Last Line: Where light drains away
Subject(s): Fire Island; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


ICARUS THOUGHT, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nature of a circle prevents it
Last Line: And a dawn that looks like evening
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Sun


IDYLL 1. LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wail, wail, ah for adonis! He is lost to us, lovely
Last Line: Thou must lament him again, and again shed tears in a new year.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cythera (greek Island); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness


IDYLL 1. THE EPITAPH OF ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I and the loves adonis dead deplore
Last Line: For thou must wail again, and weep another year.
Subject(s): Adonis; Epitaphs; Mythology - Classical


IDYLL 3. A PASTORAL ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye vales, and doric floods, or fount, or rill
Last Line: And from dun night redeem thy sacred shade.
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Flutes; Grief; Lament; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


IDYLL 3. THE EPITAPH OF BION, A LOVING HERDSMAN, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan!
Last Line: Could I charm dis with songs, I too would sing for thee.
Variant Title(s): Lament For Bion
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Cyclops; Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IDYLL 3. THE TEACHER TAUGHT, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By me in my fresh prime did cypris stand
Last Line: But his love-ditties—I forget them not.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


IDYLL 4. MEGARA, THE WIFE OF HERCULES, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou vex thy spirit, mother mine?
Last Line: "and may no god ordain it otherwise!"
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


IF HOPE OF A LAUREL, by RAYMOND DE LA TAILHDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If hope of a laurel of undiscovered growth
Last Line: With eagle-thunderings rekindled france.
Subject(s): Apollo; France; Laurels; Mythology - Classical


IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE POETIC, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science


IF MY NIPPLES WERE TO DRIP MILK, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who wears the scent of violets %on her young breasts
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF ONLY THEY HAD WOVEN ME SUCH LUCK, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When my cloth was on the loom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF YOU CARE FOR ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That is in your eyes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF YOU CARE FOR ME, THEN WIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The elder in a llove affair
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IF YOU PLAY A GAME OF CHANCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you play a game of chance, know before you begin
Last Line: If you are benevolent you will never win
Subject(s): Bible; Gambling; Mythology; Wagering; Betting


IF YOUR GAZE TAKES IN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they said I must leave hell
Last Line: Alive inside me.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full of hate %patroculus rushed against the trojans. Thrice
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as he was pondering this in his heart and his spirit
Last Line: Nesaie and speio and thoe, and ox-eyed halia
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: ACHILLES SETS OUT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I shall ask you to imagine how
Last Line: Someone has left a spear in the sand
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: ACHILLES SHOWS HIMSELF IN THE BATTLE BY THE SHIPS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All this (said he) we know
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


ILIAD: ACHILLES TO LYCAON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus spoke priam's shining son with words supplicating
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


ILIAD: ACHILLES TO THE DYING LYKAON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Float with the fish, they'll clean your wounds, and lick
Last Line: Killed by the wooden ships while I was gone
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: ACHILLES' SHIELD (PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF BOOK 8 IN 1598), by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright-footed thetis did the sphere aspire
Last Line: With vulcan's armes wrought for eternall day
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields; Trojan War


ILIAD: ACHILLES' WRATH, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At her departure his disdain return'd
Last Line: No gift shall bribe it, and no pray'r persuade
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: ANDROMACHE'S LAMENTATION, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my lost husband! Let me ever mourn
Last Line: Which night and day, I wou'd with tears repeat
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when 'gainst murmuring shores a western breese
Last Line: So in the medley, clamour shewd, and flight
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, goddess, the anger of peleus' son achilleus
Last Line: Going up to the bed he slept and hera of the gold throne beside him
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when they came together in one place
Last Line: Such the drear roar of battle when they mixt
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo's priest to th' argive fleete doth bring
Last Line: By him the golden-thron'd queene slept, the queene of deities
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1 (TRANSLATION OF 1598), by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo's priest to th' agrive fleete doth bring
Last Line: Fair juno with the golden throne: and there their quarrel end
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, goddess, the wrath of achilles peleus' son
Last Line: And beside him was hera of the golden throne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1. THE RAGE OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rage-goddess, sing the rage of peleus' son achilles
Last Line: Lay hera the queen, the goddess of the golden throne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 10, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Th' atrides watching, wake the other peeres
Last Line: They offerd to the maiden queene that hath the azure eyne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 10, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus kept the trojans watch; but the achaians were holden of heaven-sent panic
Last Line: And there laid them to rest and took the boon of sleep
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 10. MARAUDING AT NIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So by the ships the other lords of achaea's armies
Last Line: Honeyed, mellow wine to the great goddess athena
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 11, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atrides and his other peeres of name
Last Line: Were well, and, instantly allaid, the wound did bleed no more
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 11. AGAMEMNON'S DAY OF GLORY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate tithonus
Last Line: And the wound dried and the flowing blood stopped
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The troyans at the trench their powres engage
Last Line: Askt all their rescue. Greece went downe: tumult was at his height
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus they thoroughout the city, scared like fawns, were cooling their sweat
Last Line: Thus spake she wailing, and the women joined their moan
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ye see, a mountaine lion fare
Last Line: Glory to others, or make them resign the like to us
Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucu
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH TO GLAUCUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus to glaucus spake
Last Line: A common sacrifice to honour fall
Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucu
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH TO GLAUCUS IN THE 12TH OF HOMER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence it is, glaucus, that in lycian land
Last Line: Attend, which none may escape, then on, that we %may glory on others gain, or they on us
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE TROJANS STORM THE RAMPART, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so under shelter now menoetius' fighting son
Last Line: Back by the hollow hulls, the uproar rising, no way out, no end --
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 13, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neptune (in pittie of the greeks' hard plight)
Last Line: They reacht the splendors stucke about the unreacht throne of jove
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 13. BATTLING FOR THE SHIPS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But once zeus had driven hector and hector's trojans
Last Line: Struck the high clear skies, the lightning world of zeus
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 14, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atrides, to behold the skirmish, brings
Last Line: Not one with swiftnesse of his feete could so enrich a chace
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 14. HERA OUTFLANKS ZEUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But the mounting cries of war could not escape old nestor
Last Line: Once zeus whipped enemy ranks in blinding, panic rout
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 14. HERA PLANS A SEDUCTION, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing on high olympus' topmost peak
Last Line: By sleep and loved subdued, th' immortal sire %clasp'd in h is arms his wife, repos'd in peace
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 15, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove waking, and behold troy in flight
Last Line: Of which twelve men, his most resolv'd, lay dead before his sterne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 15. THE ACHAEAN ARMIES AT BAY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back through jutting stakes and across the trench they fled
Last Line: Twelve he impaled point-blank, struggling up the hulls
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 16, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles, at patroclus' suite, doth yeeld
Last Line: They gift to peleus from the gods, soone rap't him from his reach
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 16, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Meanwhile patroclus stood beside his friend
Last Line: May easily drive back upon their town %the weary trojans from our tents and fleet
Subject(s): Achilles; Death; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 16. PATROCLEIA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hornets occasionally build their nests near roads
Last Line: Hector withdrew his spear and said 'perhaps'
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 16. PATROCLUS FIGHTS AND DIES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So they fought to the death around that benched beaked ship
Last Line: Gifts of the gods to peleus, shining immortal gifts
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 17, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dreadfull fight about patroclus' corse
Last Line: About and in the dike. Annd yet, the warre concludes not here
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 17. MENELAUS' FINEST HOUR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But atreus' son the fighting menelaus marked it all
Last Line: As the argives fled in fear, no halt in the fighting, not now --
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles mournes, told of patroclus' end
Last Line: Stoopt from the steepe olympian hill, hid in eternall snow
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And there illustrious vulcan also wrought %a dance
Last Line: Two tumblers raised their song, and flung themselves %about among the band that trod the dance
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18. AJAX PRAYS FOR LIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O heaven! The veriest child might plainly see
Last Line: The clouds he scatter'd, and the mist dispers'd %the sun sh one forth, and all the field was clear
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE ARMING OF ACHELLEUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So these fought on in the likeness of blazing fire. Meanwhile
Last Line: And carried with her the shining armour, the gift of hephaistos
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the men fought on like a mass of whirling fire
Last Line: Bearing the brilliant gear, the god of fire's gift
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 19, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thetis, presenting armour to her sonne
Last Line: Gave dreadfull signall, and frothright made flie his one-hov'd steeds
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 19. ACHELLEUS RETURNS TO BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now dawn the yellow-robed arose from the river of ocean
Last Line: He spoke, and shouting held on in the foremost his single-foot horses
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 19. BREISEIS' GRIEF FOR PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Briseis, fair as golden venus, saw %patroclus lying, pierced with mortal wound
Last Line: Patroclus' death the pretext of their tears %but each in secret wept her private griefs
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 19. THE CHAMPION ARMS FOR BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As dawn rose up in her golden robe from ocean's tides
Last Line: And out in front ranks he drove his plunging stallions
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor lingered paris in the lofty house
Last Line: Of ilion, paris, sunlike all in arms %glittering
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove cals a vision up from somnus' den
Last Line: From lycia and the gulfie flood of xanthus farre remov'd
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2 (TRANSLATION OF 1598), by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove cals a vision up from somnus' den
Last Line: The princes, therefore, of the fleete, and fleet it selfe, I cite
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2. HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hector would always call the boy scamandrius
Last Line: Andromache pressed the child to her scented breast, %smiling through her tears
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2. THE GREAT GATHERING OF THE ARMIES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the great array of gods and chariot-driving men
Last Line: From lycia far south, from the xanthus' swirling rapids
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 20, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By jove's permission, all the gods descend
Last Line: His most inaccessible hands in humane blood he died
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 20. OLYMPIAN GODS IN ARMS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So by the beaked ships the argives formed for battle
Last Line: Splattering both strong arms, achilles' invincible arms --
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 21, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In two parts troy's host parted; thetis' sonne
Last Line: Most fortunate. Who ever scapt, his head might thanke his feete
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 21. ACHILLES FIGHTS THE RIVER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But once they reached the ford where the river runs clear
Last Line: Any fighter whose racing legs could save his life
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 21. AJAX DRIVES THE TROJANS TO XANTHUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But when now they came unto the ford of the fair-flowing river ... Xanthus
Last Line: Their groaning went up ghastly as they were stricken bu the sword, and the water reddened with blood
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All troyans housd but hector, onely he
Last Line: Her desetr state (fearing their owne), wept with her teare for teare
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hector's wife had as yet heard nothing
Last Line: Women joined in her lament
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. ATHENA TRICKS HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No longer I avoid thee of late %o son of peleus
Last Line: The evils thou hast done my countrymen %my friends whom tho u hast slaughtered in thy rage
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. HECTOR ADDRESSES THE INEVITABLE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus as he spoke, his sharp-edged sword he drew
Last Line: Thus would they say, then stab the dead anew
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. NEWS OF HECTOR'S DEATH, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So she spoke in tears but the wife of hektor had not yet %heard
Last Line: So she spoke, in tears, and the women joined in her mourning
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So all through troy the men who had fled like panicked fawns
Last Line: Her voice rang out in tears and the women wailed in answer
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So all through troy the men who had fled like panicked fawns
Last Line: Her voice rang out in tears and the women wailed in answer
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HEKTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So along the city the trojans, who had run like fawns, dried
Last Line: So she spoke, in tears; and the women joined in her mourning
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE LAST FIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And achilles made at him, for his heart was filled
Last Line: The other immortal gods are minded to accomplish it
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 23, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles orders justs of exequies
Last Line: But to renowm'd talthybius the goodly caldron gave
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 23. FUNERAL GAMES FOR PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So they grieved at troy while achaea's troops pulled back
Last Line: To his herald talthybius -- the king's burnished trophy
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove, entertaining care of hector's corse
Last Line: And so horse-taming hector's rites gave up his soule to rest
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then the assembly was broken up, and the tribes were scattered
Last Line: Thus held they funeral for hector tamer of horses
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. ACHILLES AND PRIAM, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The games were over now. The gathered armies scattered
Last Line: And so the trojans buried hector breaker of horses
Subject(s): Achilles; Funerals; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. ACHILLEUS AND PRIAM, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And the games broke up, and the people scattered to go away, each man
Last Line: Such was their burial of hektor, breaker of horses
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM APPEALS TO ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then thou, achilles, reverence the gods
Last Line: And grinding misery o'er the earth pursue: %by god and man alike despised he roams
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM APPEALS TO ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great priam came
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM OBTAINS HECTOR'S BODY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Urge not, divine achilles, me to sit %while hector lies unburied in the camp
Last Line: Lifting it from the ground, and his two friends %together h eaved it to the royal wain
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 3, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Paris (betwixt the hoasts) to single fight
Last Line: Our acts here may be memorisd. This all greeks else thought fit
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 3. HELEN REVIEWS THE CHAMPIONS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now with the squadrons marshaled, captains leading each
Last Line: So atrides demanded. His armies roared assent
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE BEAUTY OF HELEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then came iris as a messenger %to helen of the white arms
Last Line: For like in wondrous wise is she %to the immortal goddesses %in loveliness of countenance
Subject(s): Achilles; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 4, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods in counsell at the last decree
Last Line: He could not comprehend the fight, so many strew'd the ground
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 4. THE TRUCE ERUPTS IN WAR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now aloft by the side of zeus the gods sat in council
Last Line: Sprawled there side-by-side, facedown in the dust
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 5, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King diomed (by pallas' spirit inspir'd
Last Line: Juno and pallas reascend the starrie court of jove
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 5, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when the goddessm white-armed helen
Last Line: Eager to make defense for argive men
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 5. DIOMEDES FIGHTS THE GODS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then pallas athena granted tydeus' son diomedes
Last Line: Had stopped the murderous ares' cutting men to pieces
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 6, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods now leaving an indifferent field
Last Line: Wisht peace, and us free sacrifice to all the powers of heaven
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 6, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So was the dead fray of trojans and achaians left to itself
Last Line: When we have chased out of troy-land the well-greaved achaians
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 6. HECTOR RETURNS TO TROY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the clash of achaean and trojan troops was on its own
Last Line: Once we drive these argives geared for battle out of troy
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 6. THE MEETING OF HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as hektor had come to the skaian gates and the oak tree
Last Line: After we have driven out of troy the strong-greaved achaians
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 7, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hector, by helenus' advice, doth seeke
Last Line: And sodaine sleepe's refreshing gift securely they receiv'd
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 7, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun went down, and the work of the achaians was accomplished
Last Line: Then laid they them to rest and took the boon of sleep
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 7. AJAX DUELS WITH HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vaunting, aflash in arms, hector swept through the gates
Last Line: Then down they lay at last and took the gift of sleep
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 8, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When jove to all the gods had given command
Last Line: And all did wishfully expect the silver-throned morne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE EVE OF BATTLE (LINES 553-565), by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So with hearts made high these sat night-long by the outworks
Last Line: And oats, the horses waited for the dawn to mount her high place
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE TIDE OF BATTLE TURNS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as the dawn flung out her golden robe across the earth
Last Line: Stallions waited for dawn to mount her glowing throne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 9, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To agamemnon (urging hopelesse flight)
Last Line: Where all receiv'd the soveraigne gifts soft somnus did present
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 9, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most valiant and noble odysseus, seeing atrides
Last Line: Home - that is, if you wish it. There's no compulsion about it
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the trojans held their watch that night but not the achaeans
Last Line: There they spent the night and took the gift of sleep
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLEUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the trojans held their night watches. Meanwhile immortal
Last Line: Where they went to their beds and took the blessing of slumber
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK VI, 146, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Frail as the leaves that quiver on the sprays
Last Line: Like them man flourishes, like them decays
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: CLASH OF ARMS OF THE ACHAIANS AND TROJAN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the sea-wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon shingle
Last Line: Dread upshouting as one when together they clashed in conflict
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: HECTOR IGNORES APPEALS TO FLEE TROY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, weeping bitterly, the aged pair %entreated their dear son
Last Line: To combat, and the sooner learn to whom %olympian jove decrees the victory
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy


ILIAD: HECTOR'S CHILD AND THE PLUME, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This said, he reacht to take his sonne, who (of his armes afraid
Last Line: Let his renowne be cleare as mine, equall his strength in warre
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: HECTOR'S FLIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now close at hand
Last Line: As all the gods looked on
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: HEKTOR TO ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All these things are in my mind also, lady; but I fear still
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


ILIAD: HELEN ON THE WALLS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair helen to the scaean portals came
Last Line: "to us, and children's children yet to be."
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


ILIAD: HELEN'S LAMENTATION, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O hector, thou wert rooted in my heart
Last Line: And with a general sigh her grief approv'd
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: JOVE'S COLD-SHARPE JAVELINES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And as in winter time when jove his cold-sharpe
Last Line: To shew their sharpnesse
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: MEN LIKE LEAVES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou so explore
Last Line: Man's leavie issue
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: MENELAUS WOUNDED, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee, menelaus, then the blessed gods
Last Line: Thy legs, thy feet, stained with thy trickling blood
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PARIS AND MENELAUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But ere sterne conflict mixt both strengths, faire paris stept
Last Line: Shrunke in his beauties
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PARIS AND THE COURSER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now was paris come
Last Line: Of loftie pergamus came forth
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PATROCLUS SPEARS THESTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The son of enops, thestor next he smote
Last Line: Prone on his face, where gasping he expir'd
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PATROCLUS'S REQUEST TO ACHILLES FOR HIS ARMS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, gently, raising up his drooping head
Last Line: Deceiv'd, they shall retreat, and think 'tis you
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: SARPEDON TO GLAUKOS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glaukos, why is it you and I are honored beyond all men
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


ILIAD: SIMILES: AS WHEN AN ARCHITECT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when an architect some palace wall
Last Line: So wedg'd the helmets and boss'd bucklers stood
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: SIMILES: THE GREEKS LIKE FIRE, BIRDS, FLIES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when devouring flames some forest seize
Last Line: Bright-arm'd, high-crested, and athirst for war
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: SIMILES: THE TWO AJAXES LIKE OXEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ajaz the swift swerv'd never from the side
Last Line: So, side by side, they, persevering fought
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE BEES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when of frequent bees
Last Line: Troopt to these princes and the court along th'unmeasur'd shore
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE CLOUDS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their ground they stil mde good
Last Line: So firmely stood the greeks, nor fled for all the ilians' ayd
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE THE SEA, THE TROJANS LIKE EWES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And as when the west-wind's flawes the sea thrusts
Last Line: But shew'd mixt tongs from many a land of men cald to their aid
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE KILLING OF LYKAON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing for me, muse, the mania of achilles
Last Line: Killed by the running ships when I was gone
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE OLD TROJAN CHIEFS SEE HELEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All grave old men, and souldiers they had bene, but for age
Last Line: Must passe the beautie
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when the solemn rites of pray'r were past
Last Line: And snore secure on decks, till rosy morn
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE TROJANS OUTSIDE TROY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Big with great purposes and proud, they sat
Last Line: Aurora should restore the light of day
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy


ILIAD: THE TWO AJAXES COMPARED TO OXEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oileus by his brother's side stood close and would not
Last Line: So toughly stood these to their taske and made their worke %as even
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


IMITATION OF POPE: A COMPLIMENT TO THE LADIES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wondrous the gods, more wondrous are the men
Last Line: But ah more wondrous still the charming fair
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)


IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: PROGNE'S DREAM, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I dreamt
Last Line: And with the struggling waked.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Dreams; Mythology - Greek; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nightmares; Dramatists


IMMORTAL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The immortal stood frozen amidst
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


IMMORTAL APHRODITE, ON YOUR PATTERNED THORNE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women


IN A BOWER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A maiden sits in her bower and sings
Last Line: That fatal tune.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


IN A GREEK GARDEN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have known it all before, in some far dream
Last Line: That soon must fall and fade and be no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Artemis; Greece; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


IN A MYRTLE SHADE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When should I be bound to thee
Last Line: And grey hairs are on my head.
Subject(s): Aging; Bible; Myrtle Trees; Mythology; Religion; Theology


IN ANSWER TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to tell you something. Nevertheless, my shame
Last Line: Come to me now, you delicate graces and you fairtressed muses
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN ANSWER TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to tell you something, and yet my shame %prevents me...'
Last Line: Eyes: you would state your case
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN MY DREAM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream, she was tired
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IN MY DREAM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream, she was tired
Last Line: In the hill's shadow %which she had become
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IN MY EYES HE MATCHES THE GODS, THAT MAN WHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But all must be endured, since even a poor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN MY SEASON I USED TO WEAVE LOVE GARLANDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN OUR OWN IMAGE, by THEODORE OLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are no gods. Apollo-ashtoreth
Last Line: Died of our unbelief!
Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted
Subject(s): Atheism; Faith; Lies; Mythology; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology


IN RE A GENTLEMAN, ONE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We see it each day in the paper
Last Line: Have mercy on 'gentleman, one'!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fates (mythology); Law & Lawyers; Life; Wine


IN SIGHT, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Psyche is in love with love he comes to her only at night
Last Line: One foot after the other on the glancing grass
Subject(s): Love; Psyche (mythology)


IN THE HOUSE OF THE MUSES' SERVANTS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Grief is not right. It would not suit us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IN TIME OF DANGER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now far be heavy dreams; you hateful sprites
Last Line: Confirmed the judgements of their lord the king.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


INFANT JOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have no name: / I am but two days old
Last Line: Sweet joy befall thee!
Variant Title(s): Joy Is My Name
Subject(s): Babies; Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Infants; Joy; Delight


INFANT SORROW (MS. VERSION), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother groan'd, my father wept
Last Line: But the time of youth is fled, %and grey hairs are on my head
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology


INFANT SORROW, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother groaned, my father wept
Last Line: To sulk upon my mother's breast.
Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Mythology; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery


INSCRIPTION ON A WINE JUG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the temple where stone altars
Last Line: Fit for her festivities
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


INSTRUCTIONS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fuel filler cap
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


INSTRUCTIONS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fuel filler cap
Last Line: Or, not even one
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


INTRODUCTION, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me, children, / you have some / fugitive elysium
Last Line: Forgotten.
Subject(s): Elysium (mythology)


INVOATION TO KALI: 2. THE KINGDOM OF KALI, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Anguish is always there, lurking at night
Last Line: There will be no child, no flower, and no wine
Subject(s): Mythology; Women


INVOCATION TO KALI: 1, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There are times when
Last Line: How live with the terrible god
Subject(s): Mythology; Women


INVOCATION TO KALI: 3. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Have we managed to fade them out like god?
Last Line: Walked the pavane of death in our new shoes, %sweated with anguish and remembered god
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mythology; Women


INVOCATION TO KALI: 4. THE TIME OF BURNING, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: For a long time, we shall have only to listen
Last Line: The murderers we are, brought here to kneel
Subject(s): Mythology; Women


INVOCATION TO KALI: 5, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It is time for the invocation
Last Line: You, the dark one, kali %awesome power
Subject(s): Mythology; Women


INVOCATION TO THE SPIRIT OF ACHILLES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful shadow / of thetis's boy!
Last Line: His stand in creation!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


INVOCATION TO VENUS, FR. DE RERUM NATURA, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darling of gods and men, beneath the gliding stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


INVOCATION TO VENUS, FR. DE RERUM NATURA, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darling of gods and men, beneath the gliding stars
Last Line: With your grace; and give peace to write and read and think
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


INVOCATION [TO LOVE], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus, arise! / and paint the sable skies
Last Line: And everything, save her, who all should grace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): Summons To Love;song
Subject(s): Apollo; Dawn; Mythology - Classical; Sunrise


IO, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful nymph all white with fear
Last Line: "are kissed and red!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (GREEK THEATER, AUGUST 14, 1915), by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933)    Poem Text                    
First Line: O godlike gestures, whose compelling sweep
Last Line: Kindling time's ancient silences with light!
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


IPHIGENIA, SETTING RHE RECORD STRAIGHT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The towers waited, shimmering just
Last Line: And sacrificed for wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Mythology; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


IRELAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I called you by sweet names by wood and linn
Last Line: In such a distant clime.
Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Patriotism; Irish


IS FRAGRANT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IS THIS WHAT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Deep cleft %lightning made
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ISIS KNEELS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Isis kneels on the banks / of the nile. She is assembling
Last Line: As if the world were about to speak
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Nile (river)


ISLAND AIGA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ISLAND IN THE MOON (IN A MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the moon, is a certain island near by a mighty continent
Last Line: Glad you are come said quid
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


IT HURT ME TO HEAR..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It hurt me to hear my subjects
Last Line: Dawn's chalk scraped across the board
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IT IS NOT FITTING TO MOURN THE DEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let us have no mourning here
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IT WAS YOU, ATTHIS, WHO SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But you forget everyhing
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical


IT WOULD BE WRONG FOR US. IT IS NOT RIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For mourning to enter a home of poetry
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


IT'S WINTER..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's winter. Wind gnaws %a bone sky
Last Line: A stubborn %leaf in a bare shrub
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ITHACA, by KELLY CHERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember a hall of doors
Last Line: My galoshes had small brass clamps
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ITHACA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man of wisdom and endurance rare
Last Line: Rest, care-worn mortal, rest, and let his sleep be thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Variant Title(s): The Return Of Ulysses
Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus


IXION, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High in the dome, suspended, of hell, sad triumph, behold us!
Last Line: Thither I rise, whilst thou -- zeus, keep the godship and sink!
Subject(s): Ixion (mythology); Greece; Greeks


JACKRABBIT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jackrabbit / black-tailed hare
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


JACKRABBIT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jackrabbit %black-tailed hare
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


JANUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My house filled up with light in the midnight dark
Last Line: I janus am the ore and the residue
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Janus (mythology)


JEALOUSY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More happy than the gods is he
Last Line: And, losing colour, sense, and breath, %I seem quite languishing in death
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into
Last Line: And I heard their emanations they are named jerusalem
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 1, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into
Last Line: Jesus.
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love
Last Line: Is an arrow from the almighties bow!
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But los, who is the vehicular form of strong urthona
Last Line: In englands green & pleasant bowers.
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spectres of albions twelve sons revolve mightily
Last Line: And I heard the name of their emanations they are named jerusalem
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English


JOURNEY TO THE PLACE OF THE GHOSTS, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death knocks all night at my door.
Subject(s): Death; Soul; Mythology; Dead, The


JOURNEYS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genji caught a gray bird, fluttering. It
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


JOURNEYS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genji caught a gray bird, fluttering. It
Last Line: Way to the back country.'
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


JOY IN THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou perceivest the flowers put forth their precious odours
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


JUPITER AND GANIMEDE, by THOMAS HEYWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove's masculine love this fable represents
Last Line: And making him of service capable, %let him be brought to wait on us at table
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Homosexuality; Jupiter (god)


JUPITER AND LEDA, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In silver plumes of snowy down array'd
Subject(s): Jupiter (god); Leda; Mythology - Classical


JUST NOW DAWN IN HER GOLDEN SANDALS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


JUST WHEN DAWN IN HER GOLDEN SANDALS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


KALYPSO PUTS FIVE QUESTIONS TO ODYSSEUS, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I gave you the tallest of my trees
Last Line: Or why you are always watching the sea?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


KANTELE PLAYERS, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was as if when they were born
Last Line: And dream song
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Mythology


KASSANDRA PROPHESIES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And yester-morn the vision burned again
Last Line: Take you and sell you to mene...Men...Menelaos....
Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets


KEARSARGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kearsarge, thou lonely sentinel
Last Line: The distant azure gates of god.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire; Mythology


KIARTAN THE ICELANDER: EPILOGUE, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glitter of seas, green meadows, sun and rain
Last Line: Than bid you die by mine.'
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; Time


KILLING OF THE WOOERS, THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 12, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then odysseus of many counsels stripped him of his rags
Last Line: And a sweet longing came on him to weep and moan, for he remembered them every one
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


KING ARTHUR: SONG OF PAN AND NEREIDE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Round they coasts, fair nymph of britain
Last Line: And takes for kings the tyrian dye.
Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Songs


KING ARTHUR: SONG OF VENUS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest isle, all isles excelling
Last Line: Those shall be renown'd for love.
Variant Title(s): Song Of Venus [in Honour Of Britannia]
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros; Songs


KING EDWARD THE THIRD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, to whose fury the nations are
Last Line: "fair albion's shore, and all her families."
Subject(s): Bible; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377); Freedom; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology; Liberty


KLYTEMNESTRA: 1, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of gods and men, great ruling will
Last Line: Mother, thou wert avenged for love defied!
Subject(s): Clytemnestra (mythology)


KLYTEMNESTRA: 2, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman and greek -- so doubly trained in art!
Last Line: Until orestes' sword drave home their claim
Subject(s): Clytemnestra (mythology)


KNEELING SELF-PORTRAIT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fluencies of light dally
Last Line: You fly through me
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


KNEELING SELF-PORTRAIT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fluencies of light dally
Last Line: Has no rights, no luck with bees
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


KUAN YIN, by LAURA FARGAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of the many buddhas I love best the girl
Last Line: She could go, but here she is
Subject(s): Mythology - Chinese; Serenity


KUAN YIN, by IRENE MCKINNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not pity, no. Not that
Subject(s): Mercy; Mythology - Chinese


KWANNON, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the ancient one, the many-handed
Last Line: I give them death.
Subject(s): Mythology - Japanese


KWANNON, THE COMPASSIONATE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This on a god's face?
Subject(s): Mythology - Japanese


KYPRIAN AND SEA-DAUGHTERS OF NEREOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That he be a delight to all who love him
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


KYPRIS, MAY SHE FIND YOU BITTER TOO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Coming again this second time
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


L'APRES-MIDI, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would have perpetuated him. Should have
Last Line: Of slighted hands up to the wrists
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


LACEDEMONIAN INSTRUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there
Last Line: A fool tangled in a religious snare
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology


LACENA'S RIDDLE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man whose method hangeth by the moon
Last Line: Now tell me, of what ancient pedigree?
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


LADY DAWN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LAERTIDEAN, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drove to the holy island over the
Last Line: Then I regained mine own penelope
Subject(s): Mythology; Nature


LAFAYETTE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the brothels of paris be opened
Last Line: And a great many suckers grow all around
Subject(s): Bible; Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Mythology; Paris, France


LAIS DEDICATES TO APHRODITE THE TOOLS OF HER TRADE, by ROBERT MEZEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Words cannot say what she was in her prime
Last Line: And what it will show I refuse to see
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


LAKSHMI, THE LOTUS-BORN; GODDESS OF FORTUNE, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who didst rise like a pearl from the ocean
Last Line: Hearken, o lotus-born!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology


LALLA ROOKH: THE FIRE-WORSHIPPERS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis moonlight over oman's sea!
Last Line: They'll weep for the maiden who sleeps in this wave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): India; Iran; Mythology; Persia


LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For adonis I am crying, for adonis' beauty dead
Last Line: Woe for cytherea, for adonis' beauty dead!'
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mourn for adonis - adonis is dead
Last Line: And weep new when a new year refits thee for weeping.
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I weep for adonis, 'the lovely adonis is dead.'
Last Line: Cease your grieving today. Cythereia, cease %beating your breats. You must wail again, weep again, c
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


LAMENTATIN OF DANAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night winds howled - the billows dashed
Last Line: As peacefully as thine
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


LAMENTATION FOR ADONIS, SELS., by BION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mourn adonis, fair adonis is dead
Last Line: Adonis dead! Sad echo does reply
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


LAOCOON, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jehovah and his two sons satan & adam as they were copied from
Last Line: No secresy in art
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


LATO AND NIOBA WERE VERY LOVING FRIENDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LAUGHING SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy
Last Line: "to sing the sweet chorus of ""ha, ha, he!"
Variant Title(s): Laughing Song
Subject(s): Bible; Forests; Laughter; Mythology; Spring; Woods


LAUREL'S WORTH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My too great love of you hath been my bale
Last Line: And on their fame the fates shall have no hold.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Youth; Iliad; Odyssey


LEAD OFF, MY LYRE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And we shall sing together
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LEAVE YOUR SIEGE OF HER VIOLET SOFTNESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We shall stay awake and sing
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LEAVES FROM THE ANTHOLOGY, by LEWIS PARKE CHAMBERLAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old book's magic seized me as I read
Last Line: And mocks him as he flies.
Subject(s): Mythology


LEAVING CRETE, COME VISIT AGAIN OUR TEMPLE., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You know well - rejoicing our golden cups - your %headiest nectar...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LEDA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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: 1, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


LEMON (LUMUNA), by STANLEY H. BARKAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pumaroro! Nespole! Lumuna!'
Last Line: So sweetly nippled waiting for a kiss
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Kisses; Lemons; Mythology - Classical


LENS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the blue meets blue, where sky
Last Line: On where he stands. His face? Unverifiable
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


LENS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the blue meets blue, where sky
Last Line: Wander me, scattering glass
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


LET ME WISH THE CHILD OF THE HOUSE OF POLYANAX, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A most good day
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LETTER TO ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the very gods in my sight is he who
Last Line: Death has come near me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LEUCADIAM ARTEMIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the intolerable rhythm
Last Line: And the luminous trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Arcadians; Artemis; Bible; Mythology - Classical; Trees; Arcadia


LEVIATHAN, by PETER QUENNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leviathan drives the eyed prow of his face
Last Line: Such pitiless disharmony of shapes.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical


LIBERA ME, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddess the laughter-loving, aphrodite, befriend!
Last Line: Having the first-fruits and flower of me, cast me the core.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical


LIFT HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like ares is he - %bigger far than a man
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIFT HIGH THE ROOFBEAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Greater for than a mortal man
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIKE A CHILD TO HER MOTHER I HAVE FLOWN TO YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIKE THE SUCCULENT APPLE THAT BLUSHES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The applepickers have forgotten-- %not completely - it was %impossible to reach
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LIKE THE SWEET APPLE THAT REDDENS OF THE TOPMOST BOUGH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Underfoot, and on the ground the purple blossom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LINES, by MARCO GUAZZO    Poem Text                    
First Line: He that appaled with lust would sail in haste to
Last Line: All were bliss, if such fond lust led not to repentance.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations


LITANY TO PAN, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the abortions of the teeming spring
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


LITTLE GIRLS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of leaves
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LITTLE MERMAID'S FORTUNE TELLER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Refracted through your tide-washed hours, this prince
Last Line: In my feet and my mute tongue. Call me that foam
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


LITTLE PHOEBUS CAME STRUTTING IN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


LITTLER SONNET, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Knot of the not forever becoming
Last Line: Corridor. Whither your wherewithal with words?
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


LOCALE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Observe the snow: it changes
Last Line: To what it chooses to surrender to: %sleeping, pretending snow
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


LOHENGRIN; PROEM, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The alert and valiant faith that could respond
Last Line: Unto perpetual worship and to peace.
Subject(s): Mythology - German


LONDON BRIDGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: London bridge is broken down
Last Line: With a gay lady
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


LONDON, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wander thro' each charter'd street
Last Line: And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
Variant Title(s): London
Subject(s): Bible; Corruption In Politics; London; Mythology; Poverty; Voices


LONELINESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight, %and the small hours
Last Line: I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LONG JOHN BROWN AND LITTLE MARY BELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little mary bell had a fairy in a nut
Last Line: And there goes miss bell with her fusty old nut
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sex


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


LOOK, THEY DESCEND, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Settle and sink, %even the flowers bow
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOKING BACK, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marble pillars / of palace
Variant Title(s): In The Meadow
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOKING BACK, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marble pillars %of palace
Last Line: Of sunlight with %tiny golden hooks
Variant Title(s): In The Meado
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Talk to me
Last Line: Pricks me %with %desire
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LORELEI, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not what it presages
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


LORELEI, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not what it presages
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


LOSS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loss more than leaves
Last Line: Is carved in bark, in bone
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOST FRIEND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atthis, our own loved anactoria
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOST HEART, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot, sweetest mother
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOST LANDS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen faery lands far out to sea
Last Line: And wonder, as I do, why they must wait!
Subject(s): Atlantis; Avalon (legend); Legends; Mythology - Classical


LOST MAIDENHEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the hyacinth high on the mountains under the shepherds' tread
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot live, except thus mutually
Variant Title(s): Aurora And Tithonus
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love has unbound my limbs and set me shaking
Last Line: A monster bitter-sweet and my unmaking.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind threshes the mountain oaks
Last Line: The mastery that sweetly melts my limbs
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE - BITTERSWEET, IRREPRESSIBLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet, atthis, you despise my being. %to chase andromeda, you leave me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE TRIUMPHANT, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen's lips are drifting dust
Last Line: Dear, how long ago we knew!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVE'S ATTRIBUTES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ceres rules the fields of grain
Last Line: Are consecrate to love.
Subject(s): Demeter; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Orchards; Tears; Ceres


LOVE'S LOVERS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the altars of queen venus we
Last Line: "for love and thee!"
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion; Venus (goddess); Eros


LOVE'S SECRET, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never seek to tell thy love
Last Line: He took her with a sigh.
Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love; Mythology


LOVE, LET THE WIND CRY ON THE DARK MOUNTAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVELY DAMES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Few are my books, but my small few have told
Last Line: Substance to those fine ghosts, and make them live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Women


LOVES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LOVING GIRLS MORE THAN GELLO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


LUCKY BRIDEGROOM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women


LULLABY, by THOMAS DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hush thee, sweet baby
Last Line: Over the deep!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


LYCIUS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Lycius! The female race is all the same
Last Line: Removed from cares and from the female kind!
Subject(s): Lycius (mythology); Women


LYCUS THE CENTAUR; FROM AN UNROLLED MANUSCRIPT OF APOLLONIUS CURIUS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hath ever been lured and bound by a spell
Last Line: In the mirth of mankind where they mingle them still. *
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 1, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has set
Last Line: And I lie here alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude


LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 2, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has set
Last Line: I sleep alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude


LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 3, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pleiades disappear
Last Line: Sleepless, I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude


MA, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hello boy
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


MA, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hello boy
Last Line: As ever %ma
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


MACAQUES IN THE SKY, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking the trail with wang ch'ing-hua, red pine, lo ch'ing
Last Line: Rhesus macaque
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


MAD HERCULES, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thunder's sister, for that name alone
Last Line: To make unspotted the immortal gods.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


MAD SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild winds weep
Last Line: With frantic pain.
Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Insanity; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


MADMAN I HAVE BEEN CALLED, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Madman I have been called; fool they call thee
Last Line: I wonder which they envy thee or me
Subject(s): Bible; Depression, Mental; Mythology; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


MAENADS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maenads came to me
Last Line: Till the heart is gnawed through
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


MAGIC, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves
Last Line: By my so potent art.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


MAGIC WORDS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the very earliest time
Last Line: Nobody could explain this: / that's the way it was
Subject(s): Cosmology;creation;eskimos;mythology - Native American;native Americans;religion; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America;theology


MAID UNWED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sweet apple reddens, high up against the sky
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAIDENHOOD, MAIDENHOOD, / WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never afain shall I come %to you. Never again
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAIDENS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So that we may look on less sleep than does the %clearvoiced nightingale
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAKING A MYTH, by RONALD ALBERT SIMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Making a myth is easy
Last Line: You can't bear: %it's so immense
Subject(s): Creation; Human Rights; Mythology


MAN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Affliction one day, as she harked to the roar
Last Line: "and his spirit to jove who bestowed it."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mankind; Mythology; Dead, The; World; Human Race


MAN'S SPECTRE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each man is in his spectre's power
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


MARKET, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of the city
Last Line: While waiting for my wife
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When a man has married a wife
Last Line: Glued together
Variant Title(s): "when A Man Has Married A Wife, He Finds Out Whether"";
Subject(s): Bible; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MARRIAGE OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crying asia! That famous place
Last Line: Are like two of the gods together
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MARRIAGE OF HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cyprus %the herald came
Last Line: Neither the honey %nor the bee
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MARS AND VENUS (BOTTICELLI, CA. 1475), by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold tape gently billowing with her breathing
Variant Title(s): Mars And Venus
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano


MARS AND VENUS (BOTTICELLI, CA. 1475), by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold tape gently billowing with her breathing
Last Line: Rhyming, secret, intimate, and familiar, %their two mysteries mingle in this: deferral %of ever afte
Variant Title(s): Mars And Venu
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters


MARSYAS, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little grey hill-glade, close-turfed, withdrawn
Last Line: Divinely inaccessible, the scorn.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical


MARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet mary, the first time she ever was there
Last Line: That shall never be quiet till laid on its bier
Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology


MAY THE WINDS AND WORRIES BEAR OFF THE ONE WHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Blames me in my anguish
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAY YOU SLEEP, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of a tender friend
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MAY YOU SLEEP UPON YOUR GENTLE COMPANION'S BREAST, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ME AWAY FROM THEM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The guard corporal %wrestling
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MEDEA, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it, then, done?
Last Line: Falls.]
Subject(s): Greece; Mothers; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Greeks


MEDEA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye gods of marriage
Last Line: Prove that there are no gods where'er thou goest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Medea (mythology); Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


MEDEA IN ATHENS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead, is he? Yes, our stranger guest said dead
Last Line: By which none weeps. I have forgotten thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Medea (mythology); Mythology


MEDEA'S LOVE, by HARRIETTE FANNING READ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is my life! And should not I give all
Last Line: Left all for love, and in his smile found all?
Subject(s): Medea (mythology)


MEDEA'S REVENGE, by HARRIETTE FANNING READ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vengeance hath had her perfect rites! Now, now
Last Line: Which rend my own!
Subject(s): Medea (mythology)


MEDEIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: BACCHUS, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bacchus that drunken god from hell comes forth
Last Line: He into mischiefe, runneth headlong still.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Wine


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 PATRICIA M. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poseidon was easier than most
Last Line: My hair %is it moving
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


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


MEETING THE GRAIAE, by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perseus speaks %-- to press my case. Hermes had said
Last Line: Rarely visit, and never write
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


MELAMPUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With love exceeding a simple love of the
Last Line: That glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck.
Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Muses; Mythology; Nature


MEN AND STATES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the pilgrim passes while the country permanent remains
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


MENAPHON: APOLLO'S ORACLE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When neptune, riding on the southern seas
Last Line: And sweet content within your troubled clime.
Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' ECOLOGUE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What need compare where sweet exceeds com- / pare?
Last Line: My pain too old, although my years be young.
Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery


MENELAUS AND HELEN AT TROY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of my way! Off!
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy


MENELAUS, MENELAUS, by CLARENCE DAY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets


MERCURY AND CUPID, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sullen humour one day jove
Last Line: For heaven's sake, keep your darts! Good night.
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Mercury (mythology); Mythology; Eros; Paradise


MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke
Last Line: A wrinkle on the water.
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism


MERLIN'S PROPHESY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The harvest shall flourish in wintry weather
Last Line: Before two virgins can meet together
Variant Title(s): Merlin's Prophecy
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Prophecy & Prophets


MERMAIDS AND YOU BRINE-BORN ON THE KYPROS SAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Put away the evil
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It wasn't only my sisters
Subject(s): Cupid; Psyche (mythology); Eros


MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It wasn't only my sisters
Last Line: Come soon, with all your arrows
Subject(s): Cupid; Psyche (mythology)


METAMOPHOSES: PYGMALION AND THE STATUE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life
Last Line: The city paphos, from the founder call'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pygmalion; Statues; Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting


METAMOPHOSES: THE FABLE OF ACIS, POLYPHEMUS, AND GALATEA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Acis, the lovely youth, whose loss I mourn
Last Line: With rapid motion, and his name retains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Fables; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories


METAMORPHOSES, SELS., by LUCIUS APULEIUS                       
Alternate Author Name(s): Apuleius Of Madaura
Variant Title(s): The Golden As
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Psyche (mythology)


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


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of bodies changed to various forms I sing
Last Line: And saw the palace by the purple light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Creation; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting; Human Race


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1. APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hir haire unkembd about hir necke downe flaring did he see
Last Line: And with the better foote before, the fleeing nymph to chace
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1. DAPHNE AND APOLLO, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Abate, fair fugitive, abate thy speed, / dismiss thy fears
Last Line: May thy good-will be equal to thy pow'r!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 10. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thence, in his saffron robe, for distant thrace
Last Line: But every nymph repulsed, with grief retired
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 11. AESACUS TRANSFORMED INTO A CORMORANT, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These some old man sees wanton in the air
Last Line: From frequent diving and emerging came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 12, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Priam, to whom the story was unknown
Last Line: And to the grecian chiefs transferr'd the cause.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 13. THE SPEECHES OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chiefs were set; the soldiers crown'd the field
Last Line: But those express the grief, and these the name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Death; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Troy; War; Dead, The


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 3. NARCISSUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There stands a fountain in a darksome wood
Last Line: A rising stalk, with yellow blossoms crown'd
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then lelex rose, an old experienced man
Last Line: "and such as honor heaven, shall heavenly honor share.""'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. DAEDALUS AND ICARUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In tedious exile now too long detain'd
Last Line: Naming the country from the youth interr'd
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: ECHO, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A babling nymph that echo hight: who hearing others talke
Last Line: Amd come (sayth she)
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


METAMORPHOSES: MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrath touches ev'n the gods; the queen of night
Last Line: Who yearly round the tomb in feather'd flocks repair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


METAMORPHOSES: THE DEATH OF HERCULES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now a long interval of time succeeds
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thracian poet's song gets trees, rocks
Last Line: Arms you'd think real branches (& thinking that %you wouldn't be wrong)
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


METAMORPHOSES: THE FABLE OF IPHIS AND IANTHE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fame of this, perhaps, through crete had flown
Last Line: And the warm youth enjoys the lovely maid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Fables; Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Reputation


MICHAEL WHO WALKS BY NIGHT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For his sake drifting away from the true
Last Line: She survived to die for good
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


MICHAEL WHO WALKS BY NIGHT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For his sake drifting away from the true
Last Line: Mandolin. He knows I'd love
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


MIDWESTERN FOUNDATION MYTH, by GEORGE JAY O'LEARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cunning oracle withholds the best
Last Line: Heifer wandered onto that great plain
Subject(s): Middle West; Mythology


MIKA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dewfall upon the world
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MILTON, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stolen and perverted writings of homer & ovid: of plato & cicero
Last Line: To go forth to the great harvest & vintage of the nations
Subject(s): Bible; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mythology


MINDING THE DARKNESS: II. XII, by PETER DALE SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: 21-aug-95
Last Line: Breathing closely together %two sweet skeletons entwined
Subject(s): Mythology


MINGLED WITH COLORS OF EVERY KIND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MINNIE, I CANNA CAA MY WHEEL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Amang derk ghaists stravaigan sichtlesslie
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MISCEGENATION, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some dreams are better left
Last Line: Were yours, the fogged-up mirror %a mere alibi
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


MISTRESS DAWN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MITYLENE ON RETURN FROM EXILE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We round machaera in in one eager sweep
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MNAISIDKIA, LOVELIER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the tender flesh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MODERN BEAUTY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the torch, she saith, and what to me
Last Line: The torch, but where's the moth that still dares die?
Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


MOMUS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Momus is the name men give your face
Last Line: And blood drops of undiminishing war.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


MOMUS, GOD OF LAUGHTER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though with gods the world is cumbered
Last Line: Hail to momus, happy boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Laughter; Mythology


MONSIEUR LE BRUN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur le brun (who must not be confused / with the great painter) jointly
Last Line: "so put a glass of water to my lips!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Peace; Sin


MOON, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars %that circle
Last Line: At the full
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON APPEARED IN ALL HER FULLNESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And so the women stood around the altar
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HAS DRIFTED OFF, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the pleiades. In the middle %of night, hour slides into hour. %I drift alone asleep
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HAS GONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HAS SET, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Time passes, time passes, and I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HAS SET, AND THE PLEIADES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Alone in my bed
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOON HATH LEFT THE SKY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But on my couch alone I lie
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOONLIGHT ON ENDYMION'S SLEEP, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My one wish was to see him
Last Line: One broken-off unending night
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


MORE HARMONIOUS THAN LYRES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MORE SWEETLY TUNED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And more golden %than gold
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MORNING COMES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


MORPHEUS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through lyric summers gay, when sunlight floods the air, while lush
Last Line: And stars in myriads buzz beneath the heaven's blue hive.
Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


MORPHO MENELAUS, by ISAAC CATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like art, it winds up under glass
Last Line: Will be kept brief, and distant, a bit ambiguous, fragile as wings, %and prone to slip from the best
Subject(s): Greece; Mythology - Classical


MORTEM, QUAE VIOLAT SUAVIA, PELLIT AMOR, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The plunging rocks, whose ravenous throats
Last Line: Will pass and flee, when thou art here.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sabbath; Titans (mythology); Sunday


MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE STARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You bring the child back to her mother
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Venus (planet); Women And Religion


MOTHER, I CANNOT MIND MY WHEEL, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet mother, let the weaving be
Last Line: I long for my young love.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOTHER, I CANNOT WEAVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, sweet mother, I cannot weave
Last Line: Slender aphrodite overpowered me with joy, %stole my heart to give to a boy
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MOTIVE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a penny fallen from heaven's
Last Line: Flower face in no one's voice
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


MOTIVE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a penny fallen from heaven's
Last Line: In the always almost here, the whitedark justice of us.
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


MOTTO TO THE SONGS OF INNOCENCE & OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The good are attracted by men's perceptions
Last Line: And the eagle is known from the owl
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


MOUNT RUSHMORE, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When titans, sportive, hurled you high
Last Line: The annals of a race!
Subject(s): Heroism; Mount Rushmore (south Dakota); Titans (mythology); Heroes; Heroines


MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ceaseless wheel of lives
Last Line: Back to the bedroll, sleep till dawn
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


MOURNING, by WILLA BLAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Draw the shades across the window
Last Line: For a heart has died today.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Silence


MR. CROMEK TO MR. STOTHARD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fortune favours the brave old proverbs say
Last Line: Turn thro the iron gate down sneaking lane
Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Fortune; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834)


MR. STOTHARD TO MR. CROMEK, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For fortunes favours you your riches bring
Last Line: Sneaking & backbiting & odds & ends
Subject(s): Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Fortune; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834)


MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of deadly dolorous debate
Last Line: His bodie left the spectacle of care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Butterflies; Fables; Insects; Mythology; Allegories; Bugs


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


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters


MUSES, COME DOWN AGAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leaving that golden
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY ATTHIS, ALTHOUGH OUR DEAR ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the night's many tongues %carry her cry across the sea
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY HESPERIDES, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the cattle low; I catch the faint sheep-bells
Last Line: Here is the golden fruit, -- mine own hesperides!
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology); Lebanon


MY LEGENDS: ORPHEUS CHARMING THE ANIMALS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Neath dawn's caress a silvery mountain shone
Last Line: That drunk with song the world more swiftly whirled through space.
Subject(s): Animals; Legends; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Songs


MY MOTHER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When she was young it was the style
Last Line: Now she wears sleek hair coifed by an artist %from sardis where hairdressers are the smartest
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY MOTHER ALWAYS SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Colorful ribbons from sardis-- %but a garland of fresh flowers
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY MOTHER USED TO SAY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where shall I get one
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY MUSE, WHAT AILS THIS ARDOUR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I should so rashly ripp up
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


MY PRETTY ROSE TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A flower was offer'd to me
Last Line: And her thorns were my only delight.
Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology; Roses


MYRTHO, by GERARD LABRUNIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of you, myrtho, divine enchantress
Last Line: The pale hydrangea weds the green myrtle!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


MYTH, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young theseus makes a mission of his doom
Last Line: Where ariadne holds %her cobwebs, ill-advised
Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders


MYTH, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long afterward, oedipus, old and blinded, walked the
Last Line: Too. Everyone knows that.' - she said, 'that's what you think
Subject(s): Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Oedipus


MYTHIC FIGURES, CYCLIC DREAMS, by BIM HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wasn't as innocent as they make her seem
Last Line: The scent of dog and risen dough
Subject(s): Dreams; Mythology


MYTHICS, by HELEN CHASIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the cautionary tales of strange girls
Last Line: Now, rewarded, I submit to his transfiguration
Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Ondine; Psyche (mythology); Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Women


MYTHOLOGY, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because no one has ever asked
Last Line: I already knew the answer
Subject(s): Courage; Goddesses And Gods; Heroism; Mythology


NAPLES; A SONG OF THE SYREN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still is the syren warbling on thy shore
Last Line: "murmuring -- thou art not free!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Sirens (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by LAWRENCE BRADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You lurch into this alley
Last Line: I'll carry you for miles
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Almighty wondrous everlasting
Last Line: A shadow and not thyself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by KATHRYN E. COLQUHOUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The zephyrs brought him incense of the flowers
Last Line: Had blotted out the world.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by CHARLES (BENNETT) GULLANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water, with lidless stare
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In days whose memory the heart yet stirs
Last Line: Grew, and was called thenceforward by his name.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by DONALD PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was it his face that so unsettled him
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind is a city like london,
Subject(s): Mind, The; Narcissus (mythology); Nature


NARCISSUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The god enamoured never knew
Last Line: Of light above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Poetry & Poets


NARCISSUS, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad lilies, o my brothers, lorn I languish here
Last Line: Pour for the moon thy tears in silver urns afar.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS (1), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou with whom I dallied
Last Line: And women honey-sweet.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS (2), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O pool in which we dallied
Last Line: Like earth is honey-sweet!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS AND ECHO, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall the water not remember ember
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS AND ECHO, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall the water not remember ember
Last Line: Moment, it seems filament of air, fare %the world become cloudswell. Well
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS AS IS, by ELTON GLASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always myself, whatever waters I look into
Last Line: Always myself, whatever waters I look into
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Self


NARCISSUS POETICA, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wishing well, inordinate display
Last Line: Idea of you, sepal, petal, stamen, pistil
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


NARCISSUS: A POMPEIIAN BRONZE, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful boy, like a faun here in loneliness roaming, who art thou?
Last Line: Stranger, I tremble,—anew, thou a narcissus shalt be.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pompeii, Italy; Statues


NATURE OF THE SIREN, by CYNEWULF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Strange things indeed -- are seen in the sea-world
Last Line: Half fish and half woman, must harbor some meaning
Alternate Author Name(s): Cynwulf
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


NAUSICAA, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft, from my classic memory's inmost shade
Last Line: Of purple yarn, foreshow'd him where to sue.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


NAUSICAA, by ARTHUR STANLEY WHEELER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The skies o'er scheria are always blue
Last Line: A memory to cherish unafraid.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Yale University


NAXOS, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There ariadne, racked with amorous pains
Last Line: "had never entered minos' royal gate!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


NEAR ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Girls ( %around
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NEIGHBORS OF THE GENTLE MOON STARS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Appear in a fluster to disappear %whenever she rises fully revealed %bathing the earth in silver lig
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NEMEAN ODES: 1. THE INFANT HERACLES, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But fast in heart I hold the lofty fame
Last Line: The shameless outrage of those brutish foes.
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


NEMEAN ODES: 3. THE CHILDHOOD OF ACHILLES, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But golden-haired achilles, biding still
Last Line: Return alive to his own natal shore.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


NEMEAN ODES: 6, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How early has young chromius begun
Last Line: Their gaping mouths did forked tongues like thunderbolts present.
Variant Title(s): Hercules And The Serpents (1)
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


NEMEAN ODES: 7, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some of th' amazed women dropt down dead
Last Line: Black blood, and fiery breath, and poys'onous soul he squeezes out.
Variant Title(s): Hercules And The Serpents
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


NEMEAN ODES: 8, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With their drawn swords
Last Line: Apollos silver bow, and his own fathers thunder too.
Subject(s): Hercules; Monsters; Mythology - Classical


NEMEAN ODES: 9, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And that the grateful gods at last
Last Line: Bull, centaur, scorpion, all the radiant monsters there.
Subject(s): Hercules; Monsters; Mythology - Classical


NEPTUNE'S STEEDS, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark to the wild nor'easter!
Last Line: Will homeward come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry
Subject(s): Mythology; Storms


NEREID, by PAUL CAREL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Born of the sea's resistless surge
Last Line: Ten fathoms down.
Subject(s): Nereid (mythology); Sea; Ocean


NEREID, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At dawn every day a nereid comes up
Last Line: To what do I owe this good fortune?
Subject(s): Nereid (mythology)


NEVER AGAIN, ORPHEUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gods are powerless to save %their own children from death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


NEVER TOO LATE: CANZONE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As then the sun sat lordly in his pride
Last Line: Her beauty far more brighter than the sun.
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature


NEVER TOO LATE: EURYMACHUS IN LAUDEM MIRIMIDAE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When flora, proud in pomp of all her flowers
Last Line: The salamander, 'twas my whole desire.
Variant Title(s): Eurymachus In Praise Of Mirimida
Subject(s): Desire; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


NEVER TOO LATE: EURYMACHUS' FANCY IN THE PRIME OF HIS AFFECTION, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When lordly saturn, in a sable robe
Last Line: And swore-no thing so sweet and sour as love.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


NEVER TOO LATE: INFIDA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet adon, dar'st not glance thine eye -
Last Line: N'oserez vous, mon bel ami?
Variant Title(s): N'oserez Vous, Mon Bel Ami?
Subject(s): French Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


NEVER TOO LATE: RADAGON IN DIANAM, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a valley gaudy-green
Last Line: "what so strong as love's sweet law?"
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals


NEVER TOO LATE: RADAGON'S SONNET, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No clear appear'd upon the azur'd sky
Last Line: Ah, blest be she!
Subject(s): Birth; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Child Birth; Midwifery


NEVER YET, O IRANA, HAVE I FOUND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Anyone more vexing than you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NEVER, IRANA, HAVE I MET ANYBODY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: More bothersome than you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NEW GOLD, by MARY LEONARD WEST    Poem Text                    
First Line: New gold that surges up the hollow
Last Line: New gold.
Subject(s): Apollo; Gold; Mythology - Classical; October


NEW MOON TONGUE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint new moon arc, curl
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


NEW MOON TONGUE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint new moon arc, curl
Last Line: Reaching tongue
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


NIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon is gone
Last Line: Alone I lie.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night; Bedtime


NIGHT HIGHWAY 99, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're on our way
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


NIGHT HIGHWAY 99, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're on our way
Last Line: Is no 99
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 6. A CANADIAN VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God, god, how well they meant
Last Line: Give them, o god, not heroes' hearts, but brains!
Subject(s): Freedom; God; Mythology - Classical; Nations; Sea; Liberty; Ocean


NIGHT SKY-UNSTRUNG, by ANNIE FARNSWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've seen those diagrams of the constellations
Last Line: Between your heart %and mine?
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Constellations; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Sky


NIGHT SONG OF THE LOS ANGELES BASIN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Owl / calls,
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature


NIGHT SONG OF THE LOS ANGELES BASIN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Owl %calls,
Last Line: Owl %calls; %late-rising moon.
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature


NIGHT, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun descending in the west
Last Line: As I guard o'er the fold.'
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Night; Bedtime


NIGHTINGALE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lovers' nightingale
Last Line: The clamorous angel of the spring
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NIGHTS AND DAYS OF NINETEEN-SOMETHING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midsummer with other men's lovers, fumbles
Last Line: Come again for me. Take me to the boy
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical; Relationships; Sex; Summer


NINIE, by FRANCIS PICABIA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perfumes, flowers, love, dancing, music
Last Line: P.S. Don quixote is an example.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dadaism; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Italians


NIOBE IN DISTRESS FOR HER CHILDREN SLAIN BY APOLLO, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo's wrath to man the dreadful spring
Last Line: "but from the marble steal the silent tears."
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paintings And Painters; Wilson, Richard (1714-1782)


NIOBE: THE GODS' CHILDREN, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nearest in blood to gods
Last Line: Nor has the blood of gods yet failed in them.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


NO ANSWERS, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX    Poem Source                    
First Line: How is it that those charming connubial pairs
Last Line: Should shame its subject into replacing itself as god
Subject(s): Mythology


NO SECOND TROY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I blame her that she filled my days
Last Line: Was there another troy for her to burn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Women


NOSTALGIA, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, o hellas lorn and whist
Last Line: Smiles when we ask her what she said!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Nostalgia


NOT EVEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Longing %pleased
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOT EVEN MYTHOLOGY, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day ends that way, with brilliant colors, so lovely, without
Last Line: In view of the night approaching heavily and the total absence
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


NOT ONE GIRL, I THINK, WILL EVER LOOK ON THE SUNLIGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of another time who has such talent as this one does
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOTHING ABOUT THE MOMENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gods never tell
Subject(s): Mythology


NOTHING CAN TAKE ITS PLACE IN MY MIND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: This beauty of girls
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOTICE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods come %straightaway
Last Line: To the tearless
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOW I A FOURSOME VISION SEE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


NOW LETO AND NIOBE WERE VERY DEAR COMPANIONS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOW THAT ANDROMEDA HAS HER FAIR REPLY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Psappho, why aphrodita of so many pleasures?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NOW TO DELIGHT MY WOMEN FRIENDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'll make a beautiful song of this affair
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green
Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise.
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood


NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard
Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed
Variant Title(s): Play Time
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight


O ADONIS!, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O BEAUTEOUS ONE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O beauteous one, o cow, o great one
Last Line: Give that he live!
Subject(s): Cows; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


O BEAUTIFUL, O GRACEFUL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O BEAUTIFUL, O GRACEFUL GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O DREAM ON YOUR DARK WINGS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But may I have %them all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thoth o wise one
Last Line: We need you real bad
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


O HESPERUS! THOU BRINGEST ALL THINGS HOME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O POLLYANNA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Good-bye, good bye
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O SAPPHO, I LOVE YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And even in acheron you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O THERE ARE NO OTHERS LIKE HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not in these times, lover
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


O YOU ROSY-ARMED GRACES, HALLOWED DAUGHTERS OF ZEUS, BE HERE!, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OBADIAH'S GIFT, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Helen knew the future, he was certain, could provide a guiding
Last Line: Was real and he must use it
Subject(s): Genetics; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Greek; Physics; Science


OBLIVION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sans record %sans regret
Last Line: In the house of dis
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OBSESSION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is equal
Last Line: Panicked, I think %I'm about to die
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OCTOBER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the world a-muse, and earth and sky
Last Line: Down unillumined aisles the requiem wind.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Nature; October; Pan (mythology); Sky; World


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks, the pictured bull we see
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Europa (mythology); Drinks & Drinking; Wine


ODE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a god I reckon the man to be who
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE ON ASTRONOMY; WRITTEN FOR THE PRIZE AT CAMBRIDGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail venerable night!
Last Line: A god the gods among.
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Immortality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime


ODE TO ANACTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful
Last Line: Caught by pains of menacing death, I falter %lost in the love-trance
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO ANACTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That man seems to me peer of gods
Last Line: But I must dare all, since one so poor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO APHRODITE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not from calm waters only has she sprung
Last Line: The flaming storm may light her festival.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aphrodite, splendour-enthroned, undying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO APHRODITE (1), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glittering-throned undying aphrodite
Last Line: Have done, do for me queen, and let thyself too %be my great ally
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO APHRODITE (2), by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Splendor-throned queen, immortal aphrodite
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO APOLLO; ON AN INK-GLASS ALMOST DRIED IN THE SUN, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Patron of all those luckless brains
Last Line: With equal grace below.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


ODE TO PROSERPINE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O daughter of demeter, yet once more
Last Line: And grants the key to her mysterious ways.
Subject(s): Death; Demeter; Faces; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Dead, The; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina


ODE TO PSYCHE, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O goddess! Hear these tuneless numbers, wrung
Last Line: To let the warm love in!
Subject(s): Love; Psyche (mythology)


ODE TO THE ASTRONAUTS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O astronauts!
Last Line: You are pushing the bright new shiny buttons of your machine!
Subject(s): Apollo; Astronauts; Mythology - Classical; Planets; Space And Space Travel


ODE TO THE COMIC SPIRIT, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sword of common sense!
Last Line: The music of the meaning of accord.
Subject(s): Comedy; Mythology


ODE TO YOUTH IN MEMORY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days, when the ball of our vision
Last Line: Of all the world, we peck at and are filled.
Subject(s): Aging; Mythology; Youth


ODES I, 10. TO MERCURY, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mercury, cunning grandson of atlantis
Last Line: This evanescent flock. You, favorite of the gods above and the gods below
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mercury (mythology)


ODES I, 15. THE PROPHECY OF NEREUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the treacherous shepherd carried off by sea
Last Line: The people and the palaces of pergamum
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Paris (mythology)


ODES I, 30. TO VENUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O venus, queen of cnidos and of paphos
Last Line: And youth, who without you are insufficiently kind, and mercury
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


ODES I, 31. TO APOLLO, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pouring out his goblet of new wine
Last Line: And my old age lacking neither honor nor lyre
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


ODES I, 34. THE POWER OF THE GODS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tepid and inconstant my worship
Last Line: And joyously upon another head dispatches
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ODES II, 13, SELECTION, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Proserpine's empire glimmer'd o'er my sight
Last Line: And tantalus delude, and soften into ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


ODES II, 19. BEING HALF FOXT HE PRAISETH BACCHUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a blind corner jolly bacchus taught
Last Line: And like a puppy wagg'd his tail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


ODES II, 19. TO BACCHUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bacchus I beheld -- o believe me
Last Line: Licked your feet and legs with his triple tongue
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


ODES III, 11. TO MERCURY AND LYDE'S LYRE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mercury! (since you, maestro, taught
Last Line: A mournful epitaph in memory of me
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mercury (mythology)


ODES III, 25. TO BACCHUS: A DITHYRAMB, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, o bacchus, are you dragging me?
Last Line: Whose brows are wreathed with verdant vine-leaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


ODES III, 26. TO VENUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Till recently I lived, satisfying girls
Last Line: At scornful chloe, chloe the arrogant
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


ODES III, 3. TO VENUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis true, I was a sturdy soldier once
Last Line: And pay her with a pox!
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


ODES IV, 1. TO VENUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more of war: dread cytherea, cease
Last Line: O'er pleasant fields and purling streams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


ODES IV, 1. TO VENUS FOR LIGURINUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O venus, why are you renewing
Last Line: You, cruel one! Through waves whirling, swirling
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise
Last Line: Make sweet the air.
Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus


ODYSSEUS, by MORTON JAY MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For twenty years I was gone on that journey
Last Line: Stranded on the shores of my own imaginings
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS AND DEMODOCUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But now a herald, leading the bard beloved, drew near
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS AND EURYCLEIA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the old nurse took a basin of brass bright-glittering
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS AND HIS FATHER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now hermes of cyllene called to the world beyond
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS AND HIS SON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then close at hand came athene. A woman now seemed she
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE MEET, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then the old dame went up to the upper chamber, laughing loud
Last Line: Athene hid them in night, and swiftly ked them forth from the city
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS AT OGYGIA, by HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the evening sky with arms outstretched to welcome me
Last Line: The oars bend nigh to breaking, as we near the long sought home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair
Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Yale University


ODYSSEUS HEARS ABOUT DEATH OF AGAMEMNON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afterward, soon as the chaste persephone hither and thither
Last Line: Not in the light; since faith can be placed in woman no longer
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS HEARS OF THE DEATH OF KALYPSO, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: All their songs are of one hour
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Death; Dead, The


ODYSSEUS REVEALS HIMSELF TO HIS FATHER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All this haste made not his staid faith so free
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS SUMMONS THE GHOSTS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poured we libations unto each the dead
Last Line: And set my oar up, that I swung amid fellows
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS' MOTHER SPEAKS TO HIM IN HADES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither did the keen-sighted archer goddess assail me in my halls
Last Line: And for thy tender-heartedness, that robbed me of honey-sweet life
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS' RETURN TO ITHACA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the noble odysseus wakened, once more on his native ground
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS'S SECRET, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At first he thought only of home, and penelope
Last Line: As if his beloved were all that ever mattered
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS: IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR GRIFFITH, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You had the prose of logic and of scorn
Last Line: Your memory be the flame upon our hills
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEUS; FOR GEORGE KIRSTEIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always the setting forth was the same
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


ODYSSEUS; FOR GEORGE KIRSTEIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always the setting forth was the same
Last Line: Was the one he kept sailing home to
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY, by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But where athene saw the swineherd gone
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But still I stayed there, till my mother came
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That moment, fainting as he touched the shore
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: AGAMEMNON TO ACHILLES, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The danaans wept for you, achilles, gathering round
Last Line: Men at sea will mark it from a great distance
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 1, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide
Last Line: Therewith he led the way, and pallas athene followed
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. A GODDESS INTERVENES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing in me, muse, and through me tell the story
Last Line: He took in thought the course althena gave him
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. ATHENA INSPIRES THE PRINCE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing to me of the man, muse, the man of twists and turns
Last Line: He weighed in his mind the course athena charted
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. THEME, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, o muse, of the man so wary and wise, who in far lands
Last Line: Sing - whence-ever the lay - sing zeus born goddess, for us too!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 10, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then we came to the isle aeolian, where dwelt aeolus
Last Line: Who may behold a god against his will, whether going to or fro?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 10, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. THE BEWITCHING QUEEN OF AEAEA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We reached the aeolian island next, the home of aeolus
Last Line: Who wants to be invisible gliding here and there?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. THE GRACE OF THE WITCH, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We made our landfall on aiolia island
Last Line: Unless she wished his mortal eyes aware?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 11, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when we had gone down to the ship and to the sea
Last Line: Wave of flood bore the barque down the stream of oceanus, we rowing first, and afterwards the fair w
Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. A GATHERING OF SHADES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We bore down on the ship at the sea's edge
Last Line: First under oars, then with a following wind
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. THE KINGDOM OF THE DEAD, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now down we came to the ship at the water's edge
Last Line: Sped by our rowing first, then by a fresh fair wind
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 12, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now after the ship had left the stream of the river oceanus
Last Line: And it liketh me not twice to tell a plain-told tale
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 12. SEA PERILS AND DEFEAT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ship sailed on, out of the ocean stream
Last Line: With tiresome repetition of a story
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 12. THE CATTLE OF THE SUN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when our ship had left the ocean river rolling in her wake
Last Line: To repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 13, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. ATHENA ACCOSTS ODYSSEUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So he spake; but the grey-eyed, the goddess athene, smiled and now
Last Line: But this I know full surely, thou wert kind a while agone %while we sons of the achaeans by troy-tow
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. ITHACA AT LAST, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His tale was now over. The phaeacians all fell silent, hushed
Last Line: To bring telemachus home from hallowed lacedaemon
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 14. HOSPITALITY IN THE FOREST, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He went up from the cove through wooded ground
Last Line: Out of the wind and rain
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 14. THE LOYAL SWINEHERD, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So up from the haven now odysseus climbed a rugged path
Last Line: A jutting crag that broke the north wind's blast
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 15. HOW THEY CAME TO ITHAKA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: South into lakedaimon
Last Line: Slept under arms on duty for his masters
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 15. THE PRINCE SETS SAIL FOR HOME, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now south through the spacious dancing-rings of lacedaemon
Last Line: Always the man to serve his masters well
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 16. FATHER AND SON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But there were two men in the mountain hut
Last Line: They turned to bed and took the gift of sleep
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 16. FATHER AND SON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As dawn came into the lodge, the king and loyal swineherd
Last Line: They remembered bed and took the gift of sleep
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 17, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Such speech they changed: when in the yard there lay
Last Line: That once is sun-burnt with the servile day.'
Subject(s): Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 17. STRANGER AT THE GATES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When young dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more
Last Line: The day was over. Dusk was falling fast
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 17. THE BEGGAR AT THE MANOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the young dawn came bright into the east
Last Line: Of dance and song, as day waned into evening
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 18. BLOWS AND A QUEEN'S BEAUTY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now a true scavenger came in -- a public tramp
Last Line: They trailed off homeward drowsily to bed
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 18. THE BEGGAR-KING OF ITHACA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now along this tramp, this public nuisance
Last Line: And went their ways to bed, each suitor to his house
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 19. PENELOPE AND HER GUEST, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That left the great odysseus waiting in his hall
Last Line: Till watchful athena sealed her eyes with welcome sleep
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 19. RECOGNITIONS AND A DREAM, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now by athena's side in the quiet hall
Last Line: Cast sweet sleep upon her eyes
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 2, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 2. A HERO'S SON AWAKENS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When primal dawn spread on the eastern sky
Last Line: Most of all to the grey-eyed daughter of zeus
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 2. TELEMACHUS SETS SAIL, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When young dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more
Last Line: And the shop went plunging all night long and through the dawn
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 20. PORTENTS GATHER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Off in the entrance-hall the great king made his bed
Last Line: For they'd been first to plot their vicious crimes
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 20. SIGNS AND A VISION, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside in the entry way he made his bed
Last Line: Whose treachery had filled that house with pain
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 21. ODYSSEUS STRINGS HIS BOW, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The time had come. The goddess athena with her blazing eyes
Last Line: His bronze spearpoint glinting now like fire ...
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 21. THE TEST OF THE BOW, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon penelope, most worn in love and thought
Last Line: Stood by his chair, in the forefront near his father
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 22. DEATH IN THE GREAT HALL, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now shrugging off his rags the wiliest fighter of the islands
Last Line: And overcome by longing and by tears
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 22. SLAUGHTER IN THE HALL, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now stripping back his rags odysseus master of craft and battle
Last Line: Deep in his heart he knew them one and all
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 23. THE GREAT ROOTED BED, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up to the rooms the old nurse clambered, chuckling all the way
Last Line: Quickly led the four men out of town
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 23. THE TRUNK OF THE OLIVE TREE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old nurse went upstairs exulting
Last Line: Going before them swiftly from the town
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. PEACE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now cyllenian hermes called away the suitors' ghosts
Last Line: Yes, but the goddess still kept mentor's build and voice
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. WARRIORS, FAREWELL, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Meanwhile the suitors' ghosts were called away
Last Line: Though still she kept the form and voice of mentor
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. KING NESTOR REMEMBERS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sun sprang up, leaving the brilliant waters in its wake
Last Line: As the sun sank and the roads of the world grew dark
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. THE LORD OF THE WESTERN APPROACHES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea
Last Line: The sun went down and all the roads grew dark
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 4, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 4. THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPARTA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last they gained the ravines of lacedaemon ringed by hills
Last Line: Here the achaeans lurked in ambush for the prince
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 4. THE RED-HAIRED KING AND HIS LADY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By vales and sharp ravines in lakedaimon
Last Line: In ambush here that night the akhaians lay
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 5, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the dawn arose from her couch, and from the side of the lordly tithonus
Last Line: That so it might soon release him from hksi weary travail, overshadowing his eyelids
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. ODYSSEUS - NYMPH AND SHIPWRECK, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate tithonus
Last Line: Blessed sleep that sealed his eyes at last
Subject(s): Disasters; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Shipwrecks; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. SWEET NYMPH AND OPEN SEA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn came up from the couch of her reclining
Last Line: In quiet sleep she sealed his cherished eyes
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 6, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when they were about to move for home
Last Line: Alcinous, large of soul, to whom are given %the rule of the phaeacians and their power
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. NAUSICAA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Having thus fulfilled her purpose athene went away to olympus
Last Line: Repaired the grey-eyed one after clearly imparting her message to the maiden
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. THE PRINCESS AND THE STRANGER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So there he lay at rest, the storm-tossed great odysseus
Last Line: The great odysseus till he reached his native land
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. THE PRINCESS AT THE RIVER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far gone in weariness, in oblivion
Last Line: Until the kingly man came home to his own shore
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 7. GARDENS AND FIRELIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As lord odysseus prayed there in the grove
Last Line: Retired to rest where his dear consort lay
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 7. PHAEACIA'S HALLS AND GARDENS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as odysseus, long an exile, prayed in athena's grove
Last Line: Where the queen his wife arranged and shared their bed
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 8. A DAY FOR SONGS AND CONTESTS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When young dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more
Last Line: The brother-in-arms who shares our inmost thoughts
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 8. THE SONGS OF THE HARPER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the opening fingers of the dawn
Last Line: Can take a brother's place in our affection
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 9, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 9, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And odysseus of many counsels answered him saying: king alchinous, most notable
Last Line: Thence we sailed onward stricken at heart, yet glad as men saved from death, albeit we had lost our
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. IN THE ONE-EYED GIANT'S CAVE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Odysseus, the great teller of tales, launched out on his story
Last Line: Yet sick at heart for the comrades we had lost
Subject(s): Giants; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. NEW COASTS AND POSEIDON'S SON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this was the reply odysseus made
Last Line: Having our precious lives, but not our friends
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: CALYPSO BIDS ULYSSES DEPART, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even a god could not help being charmed with such a lovely spot, so
Last Line: You and punish you.'
Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: CYCLOPS AND NO MAN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the noble juyce
Last Line: And name deceiv'd him
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: DEMODOCUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This the divine expressor did so give
Last Line: Deathlesse and manly; should stand so enclin'd
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Troy; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: DEMODOCUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The minstrel stirred, and murmuring to the god
Last Line: Seems fixed upon his heart. Break off the song!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Troy; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: JOVE SENDS HERMES TO CALYPSO, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He ended, nor the argicide refus'd
Last Line: A god from heav'n with wonder and delight
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: LAERTES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When he found laertes alone on the tidy terrace, hoeing
Last Line: And cradled like driftwood the bones of his dwindling father
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: LANDFALL, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two nights yet, and daies
Last Line: To that wisht continent
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: MAN AND WIFE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now, eurynome had bath'd the king
Last Line: So deare, to this wife, was her husband's sight
Subject(s): Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: MARS AND VENUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mean-time the bard alternate to the strings
Last Line: And unextinquish'd laughter shakes the sky
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: MERCURY IS SENT BY JUPITER TO CALYPSO, TO COMMAND ULYSSES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus charg'd he; nor argicides denied
Last Line: And so stood hermes' ravisht powres employd
Variant Title(s): Hermes In Calypso's Islan
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: PENELOPE FETCHES ULYSSES' BOW, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And now the queene of women had intent
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: PENELOPE HESITATES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She turned then to descend the stair, her heart
Last Line: Before long she will see and know me best
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses


ODYSSEY: PENELOPE WEEPS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, many tales ulysses told his wife
Last Line: Of bridling passion, he from issue saf't
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses


ODYSSEY: PENELOPE WEEPS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all these lies he made appear so truthful
Last Line: Wept, if he willed to, inwardly
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses


ODYSSEY: SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just then, forgetful of the strict command
Last Line: In sign of hopeless mis'ry
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: THE BUTCHERS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When he had made sure there were no survivors in his house
Last Line: Where the residents are ghosts or images of the dead
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: THE FLIGHT OF THE WOOERS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now man-slaughtering pallas tooke in hand
Last Line: The pavement boyling with the soules they reft
Variant Title(s): The End Of The Suitor
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: THE GARDEN OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: THE GARDEN OF ALCINOUS, KING OF PHAECEA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Without the hall, and close upon the gate
Last Line: The gods the court deckt of alcinous
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: THE PALACE AND GARDENS OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ulysses, then, toward the palace moved
Last Line: Of king alcinous by the gods bestowed
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: THE SHADE OF HIS MOTHER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sae she spak an I thocht lang in ma hairt
Last Line: Haud in yir mind tae tell thaim tae yir wife
Subject(s): Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: ULYSSES AND HIS MOTHER'S SPIRIT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She thus; when I had great desire to prove
Last Line: Will make a tale fit to be told thy wife
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: ULYSSES BUILDS HIS SHIP, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nymph turnd home. He fell to felling downe
Last Line: His sailes exposd, and hoised. Off he gat
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ODYSSEY: ULYSSES RETURNS TO PENELOPE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will say what I think will be best,' answered ulysses. 'first wash and
Last Line: Let us go to bed, that we may lie down and enjoy the blessed boon of %sleep
Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


OEDIPUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Already night has fled, dim dawns the day
Last Line: With me,—with me! Such guides for me are meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Oedipus; Tragedy


OEDIPUS REX [TYRANNUS] [OR, OEDIPUS THE KING]: CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Destiny guide me always
Last Line: Nowhere, apollo's golden glory now - %the gods, the gods go down
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


OEDIPUS: SONG TO APOLLO, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus, god belov'd by men
Last Line: Tho' he burst with the weight of the terrible god.
Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Morning; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Songs


OENONE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the holy mount of ida
Last Line: Did the faithless paris go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Oenone (mythology)


OF DORIKHA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be half asleep with love
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OF EROS, ANXIOUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To make it last all night long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OF THE MUSES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OFFERING FOR TARA, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen my companion
Last Line: May you remain unchanged
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


OH, MY SWEET MOTHER, 'TIS IN VAIN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is now to flit with unknown ghosts in cold and nameless gloom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OLD AGE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of course I am downcast and tremble
Last Line: Of her who is wandering
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OLD BONES, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out there walking round, looking out for food
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


OLD BONES, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out there walking round, looking out for food
Last Line: How we all prevailed
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


OLD LOVE IS BEST, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all that the world holds, some deem the fairest
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OLD MYTHOLOGIES, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now, at last, all proud deeds done
Last Line: Wolfhounds, lean as models, %at their urgent heels
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


OLD WOODRAT'S STINKY HOUSE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coyote and earthmaker whirling about in the world winds
Last Line: Do good things. Me, I'm traveling on.'
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


OLOKUN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to pass my fingers
Last Line: You lift us all beggars to your breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - African


ON A PICTURE OF THE FATES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye dull and loathly sisterhood forlorn!
Last Line: That hath no peer in moral loveliness!
Subject(s): Fates (mythology)


ON A WEDDING, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark! How the bells ring, how happy the day
Last Line: And all that she wish'd to receive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON AN OATEN STRAW, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My harp is out of tune, and so I take
Last Line: Seated with pan upon the mossy weir.
Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Lyres; Songs


ON ANOTHER'S SORROW, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I see another's woe
Last Line: He doth sit by us and moan.
Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Mythology; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


ON APOLLO PINING FOR DAPHNE, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Foolish cupid, %what is your flame preparing?
Last Line: On one side burning grief persuades [him to come forth], on the other [love repells him]
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ON ART AND ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Denegrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


ON BAILE'S STRAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a clever man you are though you are blind!
Last Line: [they go out.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Ireland; Mythology - Celtic; Irish


ON BEAUTY; A RIDDLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Resolve me, cloe, what is this
Last Line: Of idle tales, and foolish riddles.
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Kisses; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Riddles


ON F----- & S-----, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found them blind I taught them how to see
Last Line: A fool to a bolt a knave to a glass of gin
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834)


ON FRIENDS AND FOES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am no homer's hero you all know
Last Line: And becomes the enemy & betrayer of his friends
Variant Title(s): I Am No Homer's Hero
Subject(s): Bible; Enemies; Friendship; Mythology


ON H---- THE PICK THANK, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I write the rascal thanks till he & I
Last Line: With thanks & compliments are quite drawn dry
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


ON H----YS FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When h----y finds out what you cannot do
Last Line: Hired a villain to bereave my life
Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


ON HAYLEY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To forgive enemies h-- does pretend
Last Line: Do be my enemy -- for friendship's sake
Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Hypocrisy; Mythology; Villains In Literature


ON HOMER'S POETRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every poem must necessarily be a perfect unity, but why
Last Line: The classics, it is the classics! & not goths nor monks, that desolate europe with wars
Subject(s): Bible; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry And Poets


ON LEAPING OVER THE MOON, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw new worlds beneath the water lie
Last Line: As o'er our heads, a place of bliss.
Subject(s): Earth; Icarus; Moon; Mythology - Classical; World


ON MY BIRTHDAY, JULY 21, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I, my dear, was born today
Last Line: Thou, my dear, wert born to-day.'
Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Life; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Dead, The


ON PSYCHE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At two after noon for our psyche inquire
Last Line: She saves half her victuals, by feeding your ears.
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


ON S-----, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You say reserve & modesty he has
Last Line: By sweet reserve & modesty get fat
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834)


ON SEEING THE NEW MOON: PALINODE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked at the young and silver moon to-night
Last Line: The windows shall all be wide and thou be adored.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can there be anything more mean
Last Line: When he praises michael angelo
Subject(s): Bible; Hypocrisy; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Villains In Literature


ON THE BUST OF HELEN BY CANOVA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this beloved marble view
Last Line: Behold the helen of the heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors


ON THE DARING OF MAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O vessel bearing virgil greeceward now,
Last Line: For our audacity thus perish, all?
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Hercules; Humanity; Mythology - Classical; Prometheus; Troy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil


ON THE DEATH OF CUCHULAINN, by THOMAS BOYD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The last of the mighty deeds of the son of sualitim
Subject(s): Cuchulainn (irish Mythology); Death; Dead, The


ON THE DOWNS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Squeeze out the cowslip-wine and let me drink
Last Line: My landscape; -- she is with me; -- I can die.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Orion (mythology); Silence; Dead, The; Nightmares; Wine


ON THE GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN BY ENGLISH NOBILITY & GENTRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the ignorant savage will sell his own wife
Last Line: To give these rascals a dose of cawdle
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Paintings & Painters


ON THE LATIN GERUNDS, by RICHARD PORSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When dido found aeneas would not come
Last Line: She mourn'd in silence, and was di-do-dum(b).
Variant Title(s): Dido
Subject(s): Mnemonics; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Bereavement


ON THE PICTURE OF VENUS BY APELLES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stand back! While venus quits her ocean home
Last Line: Or her wet locks will sprinkle thee with foam
Subject(s): Apelles (late 4th C.- Early 3rd C. B.c.;mythology - Classical;venus (goddess)


ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hearest thou not the pipe of faunus, sweeping
Last Line: By music and enchantment all surrounded.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Greece; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Statues; Greeks


ON THE STATUE OF BACCHANTE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Restrain that bacchante! Ere the marble maid
Last Line: "leaps from the shrine, and seeks the forest glade"
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek;statues


ON THE STEPS OF THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We invent our gods
Subject(s): Mythology; Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)


ON THE THRONE OF MANY HUES, IMMORTAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To have fulfilled, fulfill, and you %be my ally
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion


ON THE VIRGINITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er is done to her she cannot know
Last Line: No one can take the pride no one the shame
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals


ON VENUS ARISING FROM THE SEA, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Charm'd by apelles' magic, here thine eyes
Last Line: "with thee 'twere vain in loveliness to vie."
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


ON VIRGIL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sacred truth has pronounced that greece and rome
Last Line: Gothic is living form
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virgil (70-19 B.c.)


ON YOUR DAZZLING THRONE, APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: From fearful agony. Labor %for my mad heart, and be %my ally
Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite:
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ON YOUR THRONE, A MARVEL OF ART, IMMORTAL., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shoulder to shoulder
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ONCE UPON A TIME, THE STORY GOES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leda found a hyacinthine egg
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ONE OF THEIR GODS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When one of them moved through the center of selefkia
Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P.
Subject(s): Mythology


ONE OF THEIR GODS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When one of them moved through the center of selefkia
Last Line: He'd come down into the streets of selefkia %from the august celestial mansions
Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P.
Subject(s): Mythology


OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods
Last Line: And the old tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations


OPPORTUNITY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who binds to himself a joy
Last Line: You can never wipe off the tears of woe.
Variant Title(s): Eternity;several Questions Answered;epigram
Subject(s): Bible; Future Life; Mythology; Opportunity; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


ORCHARD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cool water among apple boughs
Last Line: Sleep falling from quicksilver leaves
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ORION, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orion, with his glittering belt and sword
Subject(s): Orion (mythology)


ORION, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, he was a hero, wasn't he? And now
Last Line: Maybe. They sing well there, I hear
Subject(s): Orion (mythology)


ORLIE WILDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A goddess, with a siren's grace
Last Line: "as mine to her -- as mine to her."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


ORMAZD AND AHRIMAN; A COSMIC ROMANCE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ormazd, the spirit of light, the spirit of good
Last Line: Back to those holds of midnight whence he came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Evil; Good; Meliorism; Mythology


ORPHEUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more with rocks and trees shalt thou prevail
Last Line: Or grant deliverance from the death to be?
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more shall stones nor oakwoods on thy sweet music follow
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What does the song hope for? And the moved hands
Last Line: What will the wish, what will the dance do
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by ULRICH BERKES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Orpheus wanders through the prenzlau
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by RODRIGO CARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oblivion's misty prison ceased its moan
Last Line: Eyes such pains?
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mythology


ORPHEUS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus he went (as poets tell)
Last Line: Him and euridice for ever.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Laughter and dance, and sounds of harp and lyre
Last Line: With lost eurydice.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pluto sits on his ebony throne enchanted. 'beautiful,' he sighs
Last Line: She turns to the king, “yes, darling, “ she says, “let them go.”
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pluto sits on his ebony throne enchanted. 'beautiful,' he sighs
Last Line: She turns to the king. 'yes, darling,' she says. 'let them go'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When orpheus turned
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When orpheus turned
Last Line: Making its own music
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by PHANOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus, whom oeagrus begot in thrace
Last Line: The island of all isles most musical.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm never merry when I hear sweet music
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill
Last Line: In rivalry, but all entranced she listens.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And over his head / birds without number are flying
Last Line: Out of the deep blue waters won by the tuneful sound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus with music charms the birds
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus with music charms the birds
Last Line: Earth awaking from her tragic sleep, %the cool, ecstatic earth. O hear, o hear
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS ALONE, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought you out deep in the cave
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS ALONE, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was an adventure much could be made of: a walk
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by N. M. BASKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When gathering light
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I hear your soft step treading
Last Line: Through the shades re-echoes back.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance
Last Line: For they were deep in the earth and what is possible swiftly%took hold
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As sweet eurydice, with footfall light
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ROBERT HENRYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nobilnes and grit magnificens
Last Line: And thus endis the taill of orpheus.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1)
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though there are wild dogs
Last Line: The newly-stung
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though there are wild dogs
Last Line: Serene even to a fault
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You and I not sleeping - a preacher
Last Line: Through the hole that her body made
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart so bleeds, words cannot staunch the wound
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloud upon cloud, the purple pinewoods clung to the rich
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They've just made love
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They've just made love
Last Line: Away and enter the dark %tunnel of trees, humming a tune %he'll soon put words to
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir orpheus, whom the poets have sung
Last Line: Just go ahead, and never look back!
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You. You running across the field
Last Line: Tossing a shoe up, a handful of hair
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You. You running across the field
Last Line: The river %tossing a shoe up, a handful of hair
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AT LETHE, by MICHAEL TYRELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: And at the river's mouth, the end of memory
Last Line: Where is the future but more memory?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS DESCENDING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before we lay together %in the fragrant
Last Line: Lost, %unless I bring her back
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS IN THE AFTERNOON, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: All afternoon, he head of orpheus rests on a polished tabletop
Last Line: To turn on a light would be wrong
Subject(s): Afternoon; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Curtains of rock
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Curtains of rock
Last Line: Cold curtains of rock concealing the bottomless sky
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry And Poets


ORPHEUS STOOD IN THE DARK..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus stood %in the dark hall
Last Line: He only had to turn %and she was there
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS TO BEASTS; SONG, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, here, oh here, eurydice
Last Line: Than now you hear.
Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS TO WOODS, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! O hark! You guilty trees
Last Line: Aught but coffins and their tombs.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Trees


OSCHOPHORIKON; VINTAGE PROCESSIONAL, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The staffs are wreathed; move on, move on
Last Line: From athens into phaleron.
Subject(s): Autumn; Bacchus; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Greeks


OSHUN, THE RIVER GODDESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brass and parrots' feathers
Last Line: Is the touch of a child's hand
Subject(s): Mythology - African


OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! I'm going back where
Last Line: Boneset, mint, and pennyroyal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood


OVER THE EYES NIGHT'S BLACK SLUMBER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


OVID, MEET A METAMORPHODITE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hermaphroditus, a delight, a
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sex Role; Mythology


PAIN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men have made them gods of love
Last Line: Yet his soul within is sweet.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Pain; Suffering; Misery


PAIN PENETRATES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My drop
Last Line: By drop
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pain


PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 1, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In days of old there lived, of mighty fame
Last Line: And theseus for his vertues held him dear.
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Mythology; Theseus; War; Allegories


PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 2, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While arcite lives in bliss, the story turns
Last Line: The knights to combate; and their arms to sing.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories


PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 3, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day approached when fortune should decide
Last Line: And all true lovers find the same success.
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Death; Fables; Fortune; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Allegories


PALINODE ON HELEN, by STESICHORUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not true, this tale
Last Line: To troy's tall battlement.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stesichoros
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


PALLAS AND VENUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trojan swain had judged the great dispute
Last Line: By mars himself that armour has been tried.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Venus (goddess)


PAN, by MURIEL BACHELER DAWKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old earth lies asleep in the sun
Last Line: And what is heaven when he is by?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wellesley College


PAN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O what are heroes, prophets, men
Last Line: Races & planets its enchanted foam.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most good it is that pan is dead
Last Line: And little mirth of gods that be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan led me to a wood the other day
Last Line: "thy gentle breath o'er pitys and her pan."
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He knows the safe ways and unsafe
Last Line: The very wonder of a tune.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN, by APOLLON NIKOLAYEVICH MAIKOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sleeps, he slumbers
Last Line: The great god pan!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maykov, Apollon Nikolaycich
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN, by FERNAND MAZADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan, as he came toward pheidippides
Last Line: Pan whirled of a sudden and cut mad capers.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This pan is but an idle god, I guess
Last Line: Whether to fan his wings or fly without.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Fantasy; Forests; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Streams; Creeks; Woods


PAN AND DAPHNIS, by GLAUCUS OF NICOPOLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, ye nymphs, and tell me right
Last Line: For I must hasten on.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN AND LUNA, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was
Last Line: Arcadia, night, a cloud, pan, and the moon.
Subject(s): Pan (mythology); Moon


PAN AND THALASSIUS: A LYRICAL IDYL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan!
Last Line: Mine.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Woods


PAN AND THE CHERRIES, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I recognized pan by his careless attire, by his fur!
Last Line: Let us adore pan, god of the world!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN AS THE SON OF PENELOPE, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Refresh my thoughts of penelope again
Last Line: About waking up the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Penelope (mythology)


PAN CRUCIFIED, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the piper hanging on a tree
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN IMMORTAL; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who weeps the death of pan? Pan is not dead
Last Line: Or hears his laugh far echoing down the glen!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN IN LOVE, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay! If you will not sit upon my knee
Last Line: But no one knows such secrets as old pan.
Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN IN PANDEMONIUM, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan went dancing up and down the city
Last Line: And danced back gaily to his sylvan sod!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN IN WINTER, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yours is a pretty gesture to dismiss
Last Line: And I shall warm you with a glowing verse.
Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Arcadians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Arcadia


PAN LEARNS MUSIC; FOR A SCULPTURE BY SARA GREENE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Limber-limbed, lazy god, stretched on the rock
Last Line: "out of a river-reed music for man!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sculpture & Sculptors


PAN PIPES, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pan - did you say he was dead, that he'd gone
Last Line: Just as he did long ago!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN THE LOVER, by GLAUCUS OF NICOPOLIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, all ye nymphs, tell me truly of daphnis - where shall I find him?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN WITH US, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan came out of the woods one day,
Last Line: Play? Play? -- what should he play?
Subject(s): Pan (mythology); Pipers


PAN'S ANNIVERSARY, SELS., by BEN JONSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Country Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN'S HARVEST HYMN, by VIOLA BLACKBURN HULBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gather the sacred acorns, come!
Last Line: In the name of our father, pan.
Subject(s): Harvest; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wellesley College


PAN'S PIPING, by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathe music, o pan that goest on the mountains
Last Line: Rhythm let the inspired foot of these water-nymphs keep falling free.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan loved his neighbour echo, but that child
Last Line: That when ye love, the like return ye prove not.
Variant Title(s): A Lesson To Lovers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


PAN: DOUBLE VILLANELLE, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O goat-foot god of arcady
Last Line: This modern world hath need of thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PANDORA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Italy, loved of the sun
Last Line: And girt with the gold of lost lordship thy brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Italy; Pandora (mythology); Italians


PANDORA (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What of the end, pandora? Was it thine
Last Line: If hope still pent there be alive or dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Pandora (mythology)


PANDORA IN DARKNESS, by DANIEL CORRIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name is pandora, but who am I?
Last Line: Where I ask my darkness, 'who am I?'
Subject(s): Pandora (mythology)


PARALYSIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother darling, I can't work the loom
Last Line: And broken me with desire for a boy
Variant Title(s): Mother Darling, I Cannot Work The Loo
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PARIS IS DEAD, by QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She spoke, and sadly from oenone's eyes
Last Line: Wondered to see her fallen on her man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quintus Of Smyrna; Kointos Smyrnaios
Subject(s): Paris (mythology)


PARIS, 1978, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Europe's heart is elegant and
Last Line: All the laboratories of power %will collapse
Subject(s): Paris (mythology)


PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: APOLLO AND THE FATES, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flame at my footfall, parnassus! Apollo
Last Line: [apollo ascends. Darkness.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


PARTED BY GREAT DISTANCES, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Only then will the stains disappear %of their tears upon bamboo
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mythology - Chinese


PARTHENIA, PARTHENIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nowhere near you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PARTING, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Truly I want to die
Last Line: And royal ointment on my hair you shed.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Farewell; Love; Mythology - Classical; Parting


PARTY ON OLYMPUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When soul love & scrunch love
Last Line: Be more parties on olympus
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology); Olympus (mountain), Greece


PASSING THE SIRENS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, captain, get you back into your bonds
Last Line: Our place is ithaca; our way is home
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


PAUPERS OF THE EARTH, by PATRICK SYLVAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Myths begin here %on paper
Last Line: Smiles swimming in their mouths
Subject(s): Mythology


PEACE OF ATHENA, by LYNN BOWMASTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, the pleasure of peanut butter!
Last Line: And we would study war no more
Subject(s): Mythology; Peanut Butter


PEER OF THE GODS IS THAT MAN, WHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than dry grass and lack little %of dying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PEERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gods %shameful
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PEN-DRAWING OF LEDA. SODOMA. THE GRAND DUKE'S PALACE AT WEIMAR, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     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)


PENELOPE, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither, ulysses, whither dost thou roam
Last Line: Thou comest not, and I am tired and old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus


PENELOPE, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Odysseus, the moon
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses


PENELOPE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have looked for you at the familiar center
Last Line: Who in the dead thesis of voyage, avoids me.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Patience; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus


PENELOPE, by LUCILLE EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wheel of years a score of times has spun
Alternate Author Name(s): Stillwell, Evan
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses


PENELOPE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I have no illusions as to what
Last Line: To have him forgiving me was my only lapse
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


PENELOPE, by ANNE LE MARQUAND HARTIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you waiting
Last Line: Do only fools love
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


PENELOPE, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of course she is tricking the suitors
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


PENELOPE, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Penelope never has raveled as I have raveled
Last Line: Under the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


PENELOPE, by MORTON JAY MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each night at my weaving in the room above
Last Line: Lying sleepless at his snoring side
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


PENELOPE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He had heard from her several times during his long absence
Last Line: Faithful to him, body and heart, as he was to her in his heart alone, alas
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus


PENELOPE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He had heard from her several times during his long absence
Last Line: He stands there for a long time before letting himself plunge to %the bottom of her eyes
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses


PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the pathway of the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War; Odysseus


PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the pathway of the sun
Last Line: Bleach the linen for my bed %they will call him brave
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War


PENELOPE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is scarcely
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Patience


PENELOPE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, like a wind, shook wide your blossomy eyes
Last Line: If so you love me!
Subject(s): Love; Penelope (mythology)


PENELOPE ALIGNS THE LOOM, by MARGARET RABB    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he sailed here from helen's
Last Line: That wake on their relectant travels back
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses


PENELOPE MAKES TRIAL OF ODYSSEUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sat down opposite his wife on the seat he had left
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


PENELOPE TO ULYSSES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Penelope to the tardy ulysses
Last Line: Are not worth the price I've paid for victory
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Pentastichs


PENELOPE TO ULYSSES, SELECTION, by ANNE WHARTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Penelope this slow epistle sends
Last Line: Would troy were glorious still, so I had you...
Subject(s): Grief; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness; Iliad; Odyssey


PENELOPE TO ULYSSES; A FRAGMENT, by ANNE KILLIGREW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Return my dearest lord, at length return
Last Line: Forgetful, and despising of thy wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


PENELOPE'S DESPAIR, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It wasn't that she didn't recognize him in the light from
Last Line: Flying low on the flat sky of her final enduring
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home
Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca.
Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus


PENELOPE'S WEB: SONNET FROM ARIOSTO, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet content that quiets angry thought
Last Line: But due obedience worketh this delight.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Obedience; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


PENELOPE/THE WHITE DOOR, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when I'm beyond hope
Last Line: Sometimes when I'm beyond hope
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who stalks on all fours %like a beast
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cupid; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Snake-sly, invincible
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: DITTY, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Obscure and dark is all the gloomy air
Last Line: Black discontent doth make her bad repair.
Subject(s): Mythology; Night; Bedtime


PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (1), by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cyprus sat fair venus by a fount
Last Line: I am but young, and may be wanton yet.
Variant Title(s): Venus And Adonis
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (2), by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The siren venus nouric'd in her lap
Last Line: Rich'd with such flowers as virtue yieldeth thee.
Variant Title(s): Adonis Reproved
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth


PERIPHERIES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This circle holding the afternoon sky is a lake
Subject(s): Mythology


PERSEPHONE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stepped upon sicilian grass
Last Line: "the daffodil, the daffodil!"
Subject(s): Daffodils; Daughters; Demeter; Light; Mythology; Persephone; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina


PERSEPHONE'S CELESTIAL SPHERE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moonlight pools in her hollow bones
Last Line: Too late for life in ancient rome
Subject(s): Persephone; Mythology - Classical


PERSEPHONEIA; A FRAGMENT: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old dull whisper of the unceasing wave
Last Line: Dread, half in expectation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Demeter; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Plays & Playwrights; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina


PERSEUS, by PAUL GOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To my dismay as I become
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Perseus


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 FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Borrowed wings on his ankles
Last Line: And one feels the earth going round and round the globe of the blackening mantle, a bad moth
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): 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


PHAEDRA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cecropians, go gird the shadowy groves
Last Line: Weigh down her impious head!
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


PHAEDRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay not thine hand upon me; let me go
Last Line: Or off the knees of murder reaching it.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Women; Male-female Relations


PHAETHON, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the coming up of phoebus the all-luminous charioteer
Last Line: Ever-wailful trees bemoaning him, a bruised purple cyclamen.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


PHENOMENOLOGY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These weeks wide as a wave and white
Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Drowning; Ocean


PHILOCTETES, SELS., by SOPHOCLES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not from out of my own life but from the tradition
Last Line: Will thank you. If you help the killer, you become him
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


PHILOMELA. PROCNE. TEREUS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Procne said, it happened at my wedding
Subject(s): Mythology; Marriage; Rape; Sisters; Revenge; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


PHILOMELA: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is love once disgrac'd
Last Line: Than lead a wanton life with shame.
Variant Title(s): Chastity: An Ode
Subject(s): Deception; Goddesses & Gods; Honesty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations


PHILOMELA: WOMAN'S EYES; A QUESTION, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On women nature did bestow two eyes
Last Line: Allow of two, and prove not nature vain.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women


PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When by zeus relenting the mandate was revoked
Last Line: That had thee here obscure.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


PHOTO OF THE BERBERINI FAUN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucidity, you hold light
Last Line: But I've forgotten what
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


PHOTOGRAPH OF THE TEMPLE OF HERCULES, AGRIGENTO, by DEBORAH WARREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the site, my chief thought was to pose
Last Line: Whose gods, overexposed, lie dormant but not dead
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


PHRASE REMEMBERED BY ARISTIDES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Brightness that strikes the eyes
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PHYCHE'S DREAM, by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes
Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology); Nightmares


PHYCHE'S DREAM, by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes
Last Line: And mocking and a version of his mouth on her mouth
Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology)


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 1. SELF-PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a red winter hat blue
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 2. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: According to brueghel / when icarus fell
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 2. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: According to brueghel %when icarus fell
Last Line: A splash quite unnoticed %this was %icarus drowning
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 4. POSEIDON, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun's bright rays were playing
Last Line: And the silly daughters of nereus.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 6. THE GODS OF GREECE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full-blossoming moon! In thy fair light
Last Line: The stars all-eternal.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 9. ECHO, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gainst the mast reclining, and high on the lofty deck
Last Line: She loves him! She loves him!
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Love


PIRON, AND THE JUDGE OF THE POLICE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Piron, a poet of the gallic nation
Last Line: "so we are quits."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judges; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Police


PLACE THERE THE NATURE OF THE VIOLET BREASTED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PLACES SUCCESS ON YOUR LIPS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has made of the sun's brightness and beauty my fortune
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PLACET FUTILE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise up, my love. This is the unasked-for morning
Last Line: Or perhaps it's just a plastic grocery bag
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


PLACET FUTILE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise up, my love. This is the unasked-for morning
Last Line: When you wake among mirrors you'll ask more than harm
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


PLATE, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the serving girl's hands
Last Line: Of all the false gods
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Tableware; Waiters And Waitresses


PLEASE ABANTHIS, YOUR SAPPHO CALLS YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our lady of cyprus, %for praying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PLEASE, MY GODDESS, GOLDENCROWNED APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let this very lot fall to me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


POEM AS MASK, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask
Last Line: The fragments join in me with their own music
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


POETICAL SKETCHES, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


POIKILOTHRON, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All-ador'd, all glorious aphrodita
Last Line: Victory with me.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


POMONA, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the ancient apple-queen
Last Line: From out the heart of summer's joy.
Variant Title(s): Border Inscription On An Embroidery Of Pomona, Roman Goddess Of Fruit Trees
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Tapestries


POMONA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the golden afternoon!
Last Line: Smiling o'er the orchard wall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Afternoon; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Orchards


POPULAR MUSIC OF THE FORTIES, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard cold air kiss someone's
Last Line: Any excuse for a song
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


PORT NAVALO, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rock bloomed lichen, orange-tawny
Last Line: The headland by no passion haunted.
Subject(s): Nature; Paris (mythology); Trojan War


PORTRAIT IN SINISTER LIGHTS, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Doom walks with her
Last Line: And doom will walk with her.
Subject(s): Dunes; Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Stars; Iliad; Odyssey


POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE, VILLA STABIA, POMPEII, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: That infatuated moment
Last Line: Of a detail lacking majesty
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Pompeii, Italy; Travel


POSEIDON'S BRIDE, by ELIOT KAYS STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poseidon comes riding, riding, riding, over the ocean to me
Last Line: Come with poseidon for me.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Brides; Mythology - Classical; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean


POSSESSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That which we had we still possess
Last Line: For what was ours we still possess.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fate; Fates (mythology); Life; Property; Soul; Destiny; Possessions


PRAYER FOR CHARAXOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cypris and you nereids, bring my brother
Last Line: To his sister, let him consent to do her %honor, just this once, and her cruel sorrow
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PRAYER IS THE STUDY OF ART, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Prayer; Science


PRAYER TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternal aphrodite, zeus's daughter, throne
Last Line: Goddess, do it. No one could resist if you were %fighting beside me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PRETENCES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pretence of art ot destroy aart, a pretence of liberty
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


PRETTY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Artemis
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PRINCES, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was the flaw, forgetful attachments
Last Line: Our treasure is the breath's flame held in trust
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


PROCRUSTES'S BED, by BEATRICE HANSCOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: A grecian myth tells of a giant grim
Last Line: Fitted to fate by force of circumstance.
Subject(s): Fate; Mythology; Procrastination; Destiny


PROEM DEDICATORY: EPISTLE FROM MOUNT TMOLOUS; TO RICHARD H. STODDARY, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O friend, were you but couched on tmolous'
Last Line: Of the world's tardy praise, shall make them dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean


PROLOGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shine forth, ye planets, with distinguished light
Last Line: Virtue was taught in verse, and athens' glory rose.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Planets; War


PROLOGUE TO KING JOHN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Justice hath heaved a sword to plunge in albion's breast
Last Line: Sing as to the rising year!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology


PROLOGUE TO THE ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still raged the anger in achilles' heart
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


PROLOGUE. INTENDED FOR A DRAMATIC PIECE OF KING EDWARD THE FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue
Last Line: Hear it not, heaven, thy ministers have done it!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bible; Mythology


PROMETHEUS AT FENWAY, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carl yastrzemski, the boston red sox outfielder/first
Last Line: Running the turf of our years
Subject(s): Baseball; Fenway Park, Boston; Mythology - Classical; Sports


PROPHETIC BOOKS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


PROPRIOCEPTION, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surveying the moral landscape
Last Line: Misplaced, then lost his place
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


PROTEUS, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the living elements of things
Last Line: A skeleton, that kneels before a throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Mythology


PROTOGENES AND APELLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When poets wrote, and painters drew
Last Line: That all was full, and round, and fair.
Subject(s): Greece; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Venus (goddess); Greeks


PROVERBS FROM HELL, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging
Last Line: Exuberance is beauty
Subject(s): Bible; Men; Mythology


PSYCHE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This young woman is psyche, of whom you've
Last Line: Is a restless, dissatisfied, fugitive guest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Eros


PSYCHE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The muses, maiden sisters, chose
Last Line: And taught her all the mystery.
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Muses; Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her hand the little lamp, and
Last Line: For she amor naked spied.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE, by ZINAIDA HIPPIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shameless thing, of every vileness capable
Last Line: This horror that I shrink from—is my soul.
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology); Self; Soul


PSYCHE IN SOMERVILLE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am angry with x, with y, with z,
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology); Relationships


PSYCHE SAID, by MARC STEVEN COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wiched have tremendous staying power.'
Last Line: Then the train left the station
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; October; Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE: CANTO 1, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And in the grassy centre of the isle
Last Line: The secret grief she owns, for which she lingering sighed
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE: CANTO 2, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh happy you! Who blest with present bliss
Last Line: Hope like the morning star once more shall re-appear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Happiness; Psyche (mythology); Joy; Delight


PSYCHE: CANTO 3, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet though the knight close wrapt in slumber lay
Last Line: See where the lion's lord pursues thy hardy course!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


PSYCHE: CANTO 6, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Almost unconscious they saw their course pursue
Last Line: Nor damp the constant joys these scenes for thee disclose
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


PUCK, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are purblind who say that puck is dead!
Last Line: Or fair titania wedded to an ass.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


PUCK'S SWEETHEART, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lie like a necklace light
Last Line: Woe, woe this midnight notes!
Subject(s): Puck (mythology)


PUNISHMENT AND FORGIVENESS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should punishment weave the veil with iron wheels of war
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


PURE AND HOLY GRACES AND MUSES WHO LIVE AT PIERIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PUZZLEMENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A crescent brow - aquiver thrown
Last Line: Such impudence of sweet persiflage!
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical; Ruins; Statues


PYSCHE BORNE BY ZEPHYRS TO THE ISLAND OF PLEASURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fearfully and mournfully
Last Line: In a brighter world to dwell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


PYTHIAN ODES: 4. TALE OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What was the beginning of their voyage?
Last Line: Since judgment and right counsel are yours
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology)


PYTHIAN ODES: 4. THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How first began their voyage? What sore strait
Last Line: They wrestled for the robe, their need of fame.
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology)


PYTHIAN ODES: 4. THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on the stern a golden goblet rear'd
Last Line: Aghast aetes stood and marvelled at his might
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology)


QUATRAIN ON ACHILLES, by CATHERINE DES ROCHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Achilles chose a meaner task when he
Last Line: The other slits the corde.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Swords


RAISE THE RIDGE-POLE HIGHER, HIGHER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And he can't get it through the door
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


RAMBLE OF THE GODS THROUGH BIRMINGHAM, SELECTION, by JAMES BISSET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Next day they rambled round the town, and swore
Last Line: With thund'ring hammers made the air resound.
Subject(s): Birmingham, England; Goddesses & Gods; Labor & Laborers; Mythology; Towns; Work; Workers


RAMESES WORSHIPS RAMESES AT ABU SIMBEL, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all the gods I understand thee least
Last Line: The final beauty death has wrought on mine.
Subject(s): Abu Simbel, Egypt; Mythology - Egyptian; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Temples; Mosques


RAVEN'S BEAK RIVER AT THE END, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doab of the tatshenshini river and the alsek lake, a long spit of
Last Line: Flying off alone %flying off alone %flying off alone %off alone
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature


READING THE GREEKS UNDER A BLANKET OF BLUE, by BILL COLEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quarter moon trading light with a snowfall
Last Line: Swings off the cumbersome cover of night
Subject(s): Books; Moon; Mythology - Classical; Night


REASON, OR THE RATION OF ALL WE HAVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Science


REBUKE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Therefore thou wouldst mingle with those and grieve me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


RECOLLECTION, by AMELIA WALSTIEN JOLLS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A silver birch-tree like a sacred maid
Last Line: "shall whisper, ""hark! Who sang that love-song? Hark!"
Subject(s): Pan (mythology)


REMEDIOS VARO AS DAPHNE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the rooms are tall, begin to open
Last Line: And a welter / of water
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Daphne (mythology); Water; Paintings & Painters


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


REMEMBRANCE OF SIN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, o thou lamb of god, and take away the remembrance of sin
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink
Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows!
Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day


RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doors flapped open in ulysses' house
Last Line: And winding road of the world was on his way
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


RETURN OF ICARUS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He showed up decades later, crook-necked and hip-sprung
Last Line: That's how he'd stay in touch, keeping his feet on the ground
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The veteran greeks came home
Last Line: Hesitant, sure and slow: %she, alone in her tower
Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry And Poets; Trojan War


RETURN, GONGYLA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your lovely face. %when absent
Last Line: Again: you whom of all women %I most desire
Variant Title(s): O Gongyla, My Darling Ros
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


REUNION OF ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But her knees at his words were loosened and the heart within her breast
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


RHYME-PROSE ON THE SEA, by MU HUA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long ago, when emperor shun of kuei was still minister to yao of t'ang
Last Line: Of all things and creatures, all species alive, %what does it possess, what does it not?
Subject(s): Mythology - Chinese; Sea


RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE: PRELUDE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing no idle songs of dalliance days
Last Line: The strength of striving.
Subject(s): Elysium (mythology)


RICHES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The countless gold of a merry heart
Last Line: Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury
Subject(s): Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Joy; Delight


ROKEBY VENUS, by GEORGE ROBERT ACWORTH CONQUEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life pours out images, the accidental
Last Line: Of our imaginations and our beds
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Venus (goddess)


ROMAN BARTHOLOW, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where now the morning light of a new spring
Last Line: A river that should flow for him no more
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE APOLLO GOD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The convent stands high on the rocky steep
Last Line: "head-dress, they 'the green sow' call her."
Subject(s): Apollo; Clothing & Dress; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Singing & Singers; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE VALKYRES, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While below contending forces
Last Line: "he with haughty calmness breathes.'"
Subject(s): Mythology - German; Singing & Singers; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 7. IMPERFECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is perfect in this world of ours
Last Line: A bosom, and a soul within it, fairest!
Subject(s): Mythology; Perfection; Soul; Stars


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


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: READY MONEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, before she granted favours
Last Line: "thou wilt lend upon it, fair one?"
Subject(s): Apollo; Kisses; Love; Mythology - Classical


RONDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kissing her hair I sat against her feet
Last Line: Kissing her hair.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


RONSARD'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O caves, and you, o springs
Last Line: Of whoso hears.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sweat
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If jove would give the leafy flowers
Last Line: It blushes a diviner ray
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical


ROUND ABOUT ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round about me hum the winds of autumn
Last Line: Spreads as a river.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


S'IL MEURT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If it die intestate, airless
Last Line: If not the first person then the last
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SACRED EPIGRAM: THE MAN PLACED NEAR THE POOL OF BETHSEDA, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What new tantalus here leans toward the receding waves
Last Line: Whence [comes] this fortunate shipwreck? And healing storms?%and life, which a precious tempest has
Subject(s): Tantalus (greek Mythology)


SAIL OF ULYSSES, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the shape of his sail, ulysses
Last Line: Straight forward through another night %and clumped stars dangled all the way
Variant Title(s): Presence Of An External Master Of Knowledg
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


SAILING OF ODYSSEUS FROM OGYGIA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So then the noble odysseus with a fair wind off shore
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


SALT POINT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While grieving I went down, I was only
Last Line: The brother in the broken-bottle eden
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


SALT POINT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While grieving I went down, I was only
Last Line: Afternoon deep or cold enough
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SAMSON, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Samson, the strongest of the children of men
Last Line: Secret; but, if thou wilt, offer an offering unto the lord
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Samson


SAPHO'S ODE OUT OF LONGINUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods are not more blest than he
Last Line: I sigh, I tremble, and I dye
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHICS, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids
Last Line: Hearing, to hear them.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dreams; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sleep; Nightmares


SAPPHO IN LEVKAS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zeus, my father, once again
Last Line: At last the comfort and the cleansing of the sea.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Truth


SAPPHO TO PHAON, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, lovely youth, that dost my heart command
Last Line: And either cease to live, or cease to love!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO, I LOVED YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Andromeda %forgot, %and I too %blamed you
Last Line: Even in hades %I am with you
Variant Title(s): Andromeda / Forgot / And I To
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO, IF YOU DO NOT COME OUT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Among her daughters. Dearest atthis, %can you nog forget all those days?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO, SELS., by FRANZ GRILLPARZER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology


SAPPHO, WHY DO YOU SUMMON APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Andromeda certainly has her fair return
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO: A GARLAND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Artfully adorned aphrodite, deathless
Last Line: Happen - make it happen. And stand beside me, %goddess, my ally
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SAPPHO; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the spot: -- 'tis here tradition says
Last Line: [she throws herself from the precipice.
Subject(s): Lesbos (island), Greece; Mythology - Classical; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide


SARD(IS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I shall come
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SARDANAPALUS, by HENRY HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The assyrian king - in peace, with foul desire
Last Line: Murdered himself, to show some manful deed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of
Subject(s): Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Mythology - Classical; Sardanapalus (7th Century B.c.); Suicide


SARDIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rises over the sea that spreads between us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SARDIS, / WHERE OFTEN SHE TURNS HER THOUGHT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Desire gnaws at her tender heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SCHOLAR ARISTIDES, PONDERING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I shall be remembered
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SCRATCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did helen of troy ever give herself
Last Line: And a thick, buttered slice of barmbrack?
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


SECOND OPINION, by STEPHEN CUSHMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Erat illimis fons. 'there was a clear spring'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


SEIZURE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me that man equals a god
Last Line: I must suffer everything, being poor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SEIZURE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me he seems like a god
Last Line: Yet I must suffer all things, %being poor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SEMELE RECYCLED, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After you left me forever
Last Line: Its birth and rebirth and decay.
Subject(s): Bodies; Reunions; Semele (mythology); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


SEVEN FATHOMS LONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That struggled %to cobble them
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN LITTLE SONGS ABOUT THE MOON: 1, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The new moon makes an art of disappearance
Last Line: Nothing I'd choose for my medium, nothing %chooses the moon
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN LITTLE SONGS ABOUT THE MOON: 2, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black spider scuttling across the blackout
Last Line: Till day breaks over you
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN LITTLE SONGS ABOUT THE MOON: 3, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bone-white light, the desiccated moon, dead
Last Line: Night dies all light long, long night
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN LITTLE SONGS ABOUT THE MOON: 4, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night changes nothing, nothing is never
Last Line: Color and depth all cut-out chiaroscuro
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN LITTLE SONGS ABOUT THE MOON: 5, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A moon unfolds across its painted
Last Line: But your night, no moon but yours
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN LITTLE SONGS ABOUT THE MOON: 6, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon as much a myth as anything
Last Line: Crises, and tranquility, nectar and fertility
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN LITTLE SONGS ABOUT THE MOON: 7, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no moon unless you say there is
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the long silence of the sea, the seaman
Last Line: That dreamed-of harbor lies which we would find.
Subject(s): Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


SEVEN WAYS IN TERROR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her beauty %is
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 5. THE PHOTOGRAPH, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus apollo, from olympus driven
Last Line: The sun-god's secret -- in the photograph.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Photography & Photographers


SHALL GIVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The mind %luck
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHE CALLS HER DAUGHTER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHE HAD OTHERS AT KYTHEREA TO NURSE HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She writes these matters to andromeda
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHE PAUSED, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the path down, %she paused at the stone
Last Line: A mortal's a blossom %the earth opens for
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SHE TAUGHT THE CHAMPION RUNNER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hero of gyara
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHE WAS LIKE THAT SWEETEST APPLE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: By shepherd men, its flower purple on the ground
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SHE WILL LIGHT CERTAIN FIRES, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is helen
Last Line: And tossing ships.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men called him but a shiftless youth
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She looked over his shoulder
Last Line: Who would not live long
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields


SHIPWRECK AND DRIFT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White utopia, windless nowhere, sail; you
Last Line: Part for white ophelia too
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SIBYL, by JOHN PAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the glamour of the world antique
Last Line: Aught but the sights and sounds of bygone springs.
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


SICILIAN ARETHUSA, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sicilian arethusa! Thou, whose arms
Last Line: Of time will only make more durable?
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sicily; Dead, The


SICILIAN WINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've drunk sicilia's crimson wine!
Last Line: To mount thy car and ride the heavens with thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Wine


SILENCE IN DEATH, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When death shall close those eyes, imperious dame!
Last Line: And snatch a bright eternity from fate.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


SILENCE IN DEATH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whene'er the fates resume thy breath
Last Line: While honour'd sappho's muse-embellish'd name %shall flourish in eternity of fame
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SILENT MOVES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep


SILENT, STILL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Against me green %harsh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SILENUS IN PROTEUS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh those were happy days, heaped up with wine-skins
Last Line: To suck the goatskin oftener than the goat?
Subject(s): Mythology


SINCE WHOMEVER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Injure me most of all
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sir joshua reynolds died
Last Line: And all his pictures faded
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792)


SIR SAVA AND THE LESCHES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With the lord at nemirov
Last Line: The young wife of sir sava / by him a window stood
Subject(s): Mythology - Russian;russia; Soviet Union;russians


SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the one song everyone
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism


SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the one song everyone
Last Line: But it works every time
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights


SIRENS, by DONALD FINKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The news lapped at us out of all
Last Line: Do you think %wax could have stopped us, or chains?
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


SIRENS, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Odysseus heard the sirens; they were singing
Last Line: In twenty minutes he forgot the sirens
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); World War Ii


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES RELIGION & MYTHOLOGY CLASS: FROGS .., by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A frog from egypt's plague, piece of reed
Last Line: Hell of thinking always only that we know
Subject(s): Mythology


SLEEPING GODS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Taciturn as the mouth of shells
Last Line: Dreaming the merciful salt of death
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


SLEEPING VENUS. GIORGIONE. THE DRESDEN GALLERY, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is venus by our homes
Last Line: While the sun strikes on the grass
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Giorgione Da Castelfranco (1477-1511); Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess)


SLENDER GRACES AND MUSES WITH BEAUTIFUL HAIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come hither, come now
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SLICK WITH SLIME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And from ( %o girls
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SMALL GODS, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought my father was a god
Last Line: Day after day, I watched them grow.
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Parents; Women; Childhood; Parenthood


SMOKE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light-winged smoke! Icarian bird
Last Line: And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
Variant Title(s): "light-winged Smoke, Icarian Bird"";
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Smoke


SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lofty teacher had / put an end to his argument
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus


SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lofty teacher had %put an end to his argument
Last Line: Maidenhead, did she commit suicide
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus


SODA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOFT SNOW, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked abroad on a snowy day
Last Line: And the winter called it a dreadful crime.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Snow; Winter


SOFTER THAN A FINE DRESS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOLITUDE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I but lived when music-loving pan
Last Line: And seek through thee acquaintanceship with god.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Solitude; Soul; Loneliness


SOLSTICE AS DEMON LOVER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You disappear again, december sun
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Mythology - Classical; Sun


SOLSTICE AS DEMON LOVER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You disappear again, december sun
Last Line: By renown. I need some music now
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical; Sun


SOME MAPS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which it watches, where it waits
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


SOME MAPS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which it watches, where it waits
Last Line: The weather of its being when
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SOME NAMES OF VENUS FROM LEMPRIERE'S CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, by DALE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was called cypria, because particularly
Last Line: Wringing tresses on her shoulder
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


SOME PREFER A GLORY OF HORSEMEN; WARSHIPS., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Far see these than chariots of the king, than %armor in mel ee
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOME SAY NOTHING ON EARTH EXCELS IN BEAUTY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The chariots of all lydia and all their %armoured fighting men
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOME SAY THRONGING CAVALRY, SOME SAY FOOT SOLDIERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All the troops in lydia in their chariots and %glittering armor
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOME THERE ARE WHO SAY THAT THE FAIREST THING SEEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eyes than lydia's chariots in all their glory %armored for battle
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOMEONE, I TELL YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet are always saved %by judgment of good men
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOMEONE, I'M BOLD TO SAY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In time hereafter
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SOMETIMES SHE CLOSED HER EYES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All night long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love and harmony combine
Last Line: And doth among our branches play.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My silks and fine array
Last Line: True love doth pass away!
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the jocund dance
Last Line: But thou art all to me.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year
Last Line: Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet I roamed from field to field
Last Line: And mocks my loss of liberty.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My silks and fine array
Last Line: True love doth pass away!
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When early morn walks forth in sober grey
Last Line: And then I'd die in peace, and be forgot.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the jocund dance
Last Line: But thou art all to me.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year
Last Line: Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet I roamed from field to field
Last Line: And mocks my loss of liberty.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology


SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou the golden fruit dost bear
Last Line: There is love: I hear his tongue
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


SONG BY AN OLD SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When silver snow decks sylvio's clothes
Last Line: That makes our limbs quake, if our hearts be warm.
Variant Title(s): Song 3d By An Old Shepherd
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


SONG FIRST BY A SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, stranger, to this place
Last Line: The jewel health adorns her neck.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


SONG FOR A FORGOTTEN SHRINE TO PAN, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to me, pan, with your wind-wild laughter
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


SONG FOR THE GODDESS OF LOVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave crete, %aphrodite
Last Line: Into our cups, %gold, and raised for the drinking
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical


SONG FROM THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the first soul, from earth, reached the immortals
Last Line: Fear overcame them.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


SONG IN THREE PARTS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white broom flatt'ring her flowers in calm june weather
Last Line: No more -- no more.'
Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Life; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG OF THE ROSE, FR. ACHILLES TATIUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If zeus chose us a king of the flowers in his mirth
Last Line: As they laugh to the wind as it laughs from the west!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Holidays; Love; Mythology - Classical; Trees


SONG OF THE SEA-PLANE, by MINNA IRVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of venus and of mars am I
Last Line: The conqueror of space.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean; Songs


SONG OF THE SEERESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heidi men call me when their homes I visit
Last Line: Bears on his pinions the bodies of men, %soars overhead. I sink now
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse


SONG OF WELCOME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ai, ai, my small red man"
Subject(s): Babies;creation;mothers;mythology - Native American;native Americans; Infants;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG SUNG AT THE FEAST OF LOS AND ENITHARMON, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain called out to the mountain: 'awake o brother mountain!
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


SONG TO MYSELF, by GLORIA GODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: What makes you move moon-eyed among the haunts
Last Line: Has buried your singing steps, and choked your rhyme.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


SONG TO PAN, by JOHN FLETCHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye woods, and trees, and bowers
Variant Title(s): The God Of Sheep; Pastoral Morning Hym
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


SONG TO THE WANDERER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I cannot stay, I cannot stay"
Subject(s): Mythology;mythology - Native American;native Americans;wandering & Wanderers;; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SONG ON THE WAY, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen dwelt in old troy city
Last Line: Liefer than to hers.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


SONG/FOR SANNA, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What hasn't happened / intrudes, so much
Last Line: Miss you.
Variant Title(s): Song / For Sanna
Subject(s): Absence; Food & Eating; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism


SONG: 113, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fortune, what aileth thee
Last Line: And me heartily my whole desire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


SONGS FOR THE GODDESS' SHRINE ON FISH MOUNTAIN, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beat the drums booming
Last Line: And the hills so green, the waters splashing on
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


SONGS OF EXPERIENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear the voice of the bard! / who present, past, & future sees
Last Line: "is giv'n thee till the break of day."
Variant Title(s): The Poet's Voice;the Voice Of The Bard;the Bard;the Ancient Trees;introduction
Subject(s): Bards; Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology


SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Piping down the valleys wild
Last Line: Every child may joy to hear.
Variant Title(s): Child And The Piper;the Happy Piper;pipe A Song;reeds Of Innocence;a Song Of Singing;the Piper
Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Innocence; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Pipers; Vision; Fancy


SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE NIGHTINGALE AND UNSATISFIED HEART, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When in a may-day hush
Last Line: Whose fate is still to yearn, and not be satisfied.'
Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Hearts; Nightingales


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 14, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch the lyre, on every string
Last Line: Has no relation to this earth.
Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Child Birth; Midwifery


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 24, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well! I will never more complain
Last Line: Without the least regret.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 9, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it, o love, thy want of eyes
Last Line: And double glory thine.
Subject(s): Despair; Eyes; Fates (mythology); Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


SONNET (SUGGESTED BY THE 'PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS' BY GEORGE MEREDITH), by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After apollo left admetus' gate
Last Line: Had quickened their dead world? And, ah, his lute...
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


SONNET 27, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Ye bright stars! That on the ebon fields
Last Line: Ah! Who would wish to feel, or learn to love?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SONNET SONG: THE SIRENS SING, by FRANK T. MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hist, hist, ye winds, ye whispering wavelets
Last Line: So fleet, so sweet, so few to squander or save.
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


SONNET TO A PAINTER ATTEMPTING DELIA'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rash painter! Canst thou give the orb of day
Last Line: Fairer than venus, daughter of the sea.
Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2
Subject(s): Beauty; Disdain; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Women; Scorn


SONNET TO ARISTE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let ancient stories sound the painter's art
Last Line: The charms that blossom on ariste's cheek!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Inspiration; Creativity


SONNET: 166. ALCESTIS TO HER HUSBAND, JUST BEFORE SHE DIES, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Admetus, from my marrow's core I do
Last Line: I am at peace, admetus - go and slake %your grief with wine.I die for my own sake
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Alcestis (mythology); Mythology - Classical


SONNET: 18, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not megaboetes nor cleonymus
Last Line: Can win my ganymede; with them t'abide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Beauty; Love - Erotic


SONNET: 19, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah no; nor I my selfe: though my pure love
Last Line: Are dearest unto me, as doth ensue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Beauty; Love - Erotic; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


SONNET: 37, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through vales of thrace, peneus' stream is flowing
Last Line: Stars, dawn, shall find us here together lying.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Knowledge; Mythology - Classical; Night; Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime


SONNET: 48, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of helen's brothers, one was born to die
Last Line: I go to burn beside thee in the skies.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


SONNET: HERCULES, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This fruitage from the far hesperides
Last Line: And dwell in peace among the gods, my peers.
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


SONNET: HERMES, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soothsay. Behold, with rod twy - serpented
Last Line: Stern truth takes flesh in shows of lovely feature.
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


SONNET: THE LORELEI, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yonder we see it from the steamer's deck
Last Line: Then drag him down to no man knoweth where.
Subject(s): Lorelei; Sirens (mythology)


SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 12. VENUS, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: But in warm arms as fragrant as of old
Last Line: When in white deathless clasp his soul she took!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 16. VENUS INCARNATE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the old cliff thou stood'st with wondrous eyes
Last Line: And charge along the vapour-shrouded sands.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree ascended, o pure transcendence
Last Line: Let him praise ring, vase, and silver heir-loom
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O not till the time when flight
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There arose a tree. Oh pure transcension!
Last Line: You made for the beasts temples in the hearing
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Antique sarcophagi, who have never
Last Line: On the countenance of man
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the sky. Is there no constellation
Last Line: The figure as a symbol. That's enough
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 12, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the spirit that can unite us
Last Line: Where seeds turn into summer. Earth bestows
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 13, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full-plumped apple, gooseberry and pear
Last Line: Oh, experience, feeling, joy - how vast!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 14, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have to do with flower, grape leaf, fruit
Last Line: This mongrel begotten of dumb strength and kisses?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wait...That tastes good...It flies away fast
Last Line: With the juice that brims this happy thing!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 16, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, my friend, are so alone
Last Line: Here. This is esau in his skin
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first, confused, the ancient
Last Line: Shape as a lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, you hear the new
Last Line: And serve as a tool
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 19, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the world change as fast
Last Line: Hallows and praises
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was almost a girl and forth she leaped
Last Line: Does she sink from me - where?...A girl almost
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I dedicate, master, say
Last Line: His image I dedicate
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring has come back again. The earth
Last Line: Unruly stems she sings in a song
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the drivers
Last Line: The book and the flower
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, first when the flight
Last Line: What he is flying alone
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should we disown our oldest friendships, part
Last Line: Heavier. But we grow weak, like swimmers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 25, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more I will remember you whom I knew
Last Line: It entered the desolate open gate
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But you divine one, unto the last still singing
Last Line: Among us, are we hearers and a mouth for nature
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A god can do it. But how shall a man, say
Last Line: A breath round nothing. A gust in the god. A wind
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you tender ones, sometimes walk
Last Line: But the spaces ... But the windy air
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Erect no monument. But let the roses
Last Line: He is obedient, even when he transgresses
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does he belong here? No, from both
Last Line: Let him praise bracelet, pitcher, and ring
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praising, that's it! One ordained to praise
Last Line: Glorious fruit in golden bowls
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only in the land of praise can lamentation
Last Line: Against a sky her breathing does not trouble
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where praise already is is the only place grief
Last Line: Into the sky, not troubled by her breath
Subject(s): Men; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only whoso has raised
Last Line: Eternal and pure
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree ascended there. Oh pure transcendence
Last Line: You built a temple deep inside their hearing
Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree ascending there, o pure transcension
Last Line: You built them temples in their sense of sound
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who are close to my heart always
Last Line: In the deep calm of the human face
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the sky. Are no two stars called 'rider'
Last Line: For a moment. It is all we need
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 12, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the god who joins us; for through him
Last Line: Transmited into summer. The earth bestows
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 13, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plump apple, smooth banana, melon, peach
Last Line: Oh knowledge,pleasure -- inexhaustible
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 14, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are involved with flower, leaf, and fruit
Last Line: This hybrid thing of speechless strength and kisses
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fountain-mouth, o giving, o mouth that speaks
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wait..., that tastes good...But already it's gone
Last Line: And the juice that fills it with succulent joy
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 16, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are lonely, my friend, because you are
Last Line: Here. This is esau beneath his pelt
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At bottom the ancient one, gnarled root hidden deep
Last Line: Top one bends finally %into a lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, do you hear the new
Last Line: Let it, desireless, %serve and remain
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And it was almost a girl and came to be
Last Line: Where is she vanishing?...A girl almost
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But master, what gift shall I dedicate to you
Last Line: His image: my gift
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring has returned. The earth resembles
Last Line: Difficult root, she sings, she sings
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Spring


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the driving ones
Last Line: Darkness and morning light, %flower and book
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not till the day when flight
Last Line: Be what alone he flew
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we reject our primordial friendship, the sublime
Last Line: Strength we have, like swimmers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 25, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But you now, dear girl, whom I loved
Last Line: It entered the inconsolably open door
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the cry of a bird can stir us
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But you, divine poet, you who sang on till the end
Last Line: Have we become hearers now and a rescuing voice
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 29, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent friend of many distances
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A god can do it. But will you tell me how
Last Line: Nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind
Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A god has power. But can a mere man follow
Last Line: A calm. A shudder in the god. A gale
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 36, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the world keeps changing its form
Last Line: Only the song through the land %hallows and heals
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you tender ones, walk now and then
Last Line: Carry them now. But the winds - but the spaces
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Erect no gravestone for him. Only this
Last Line: And it is in overstepping that he obeys
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does he belong here? No, out of both
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is he someone who dwells in this single world? No
Last Line: Let him praise finger-ring, bracelet, and jug
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praising is what matters! He was summoned for that
Last Line: A bowl with ripe fruit worthy of praise
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only in the realm of praising should lament
Last Line: Glittering, into the pure nocturnal sky
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only one who has has lifted the lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only he whose bright lyre
Last Line: All voices become eternally mild
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breath, you invisible poem! Pure
Last Line: Roundness and leaf of my words
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete
Last Line: Roundness, and leaf of my words
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All we have gained the machine threatens, as long
Last Line: Builds in unusable space her deified temple
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All we have won is threatened by the machine
Last Line: Building her deified house in the useless space %of the sky
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 103, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does it really exist, time, the destroyer
Last Line: Powers as a use of the gods
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many calmly established rules of death have arisen
Last Line: When the mind stays serene, whatever %happens to us is good
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a quietly ordered rule of death now prevails
Last Line: What happens to us is pure
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 12, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will transformation. Oh be inspired for the flame
Last Line: Wants you to change into wind
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 12, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will the transformation. Oh, be inspired by the burning
Last Line: Feeling herself laurel, wills that you change to a wind
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 13, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep ahead of all parting, as if it were behind
Last Line: Add yourself joyously, and annul the amount
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 14, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the flowers, so faithful to what is earthly
Last Line: All those silent companions in the wind of the meadows
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 14, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the flowers, faithful to earth's ways
Last Line: All the still brothers and sisters where meadowwinds blow
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fountain-mouth, you generous, always-filled
Last Line: Interrupting what she wants to say
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fountain-mouth, you giver, o you round
Last Line: Under the flow, she thinks you interrupt
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 16, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always torn open by us again
Last Line: The lamb begs for his bell
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, inside what forever blissfully
Last Line: To disturb the enormous calm of those patient summers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, in what ever-happily watered garden
Last Line: To disturb the serenity of these imperturbable summers?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dancing girl: transformation
Last Line: Quickly inscribed on the surface of its own turning
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dancer: o you translation
Last Line: Swiftly in the texture of their own turning?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 19, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere gold lives, luxurious, inside the pampering bank
Last Line: Audible only to the god
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 19, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere lives gold in the indulgent bank
Last Line: For only a god to hear
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as the master's genuine brushstroke
Last Line: Can sing the heart born into the whole
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as a handy sheet of paper
Last Line: Can sing the heart born into the whole
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In between stars, what distances; and
Last Line: To speak in the language of fish
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the stars, how far, and still much farther
Last Line: There is something that might be language, %without speech?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing of the gardens, my heart, that you never saw; as if glass
Last Line: Feel that the whole, the marvelous carpet is meant
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, my heart, the unknown gardens poured
Last Line: Remember, a whole grand carpet is proposed
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh in spite of fate: the glorious overflowings
Last Line: None perhaps is in vain. Yet only as thought
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 22, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the splendid overflow, in spite of fate
Last Line: None is in vain perhaps. But just as if thought
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me to the one among your moments
Last Line: And sweet danger, ripening from within
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me to one of your hours, the space
Last Line: And the sweetness of danger that ripens
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the delight, ever new, out of loosened soil
Last Line: Andhow he must always profit when he lends us time
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, this pleasure, always new, from the loosened clay!
Last Line: And how much he always gains when he puts us %on loan
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 25, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already (listen!) you can hear the first
Last Line: Every hour that goes by grows younger
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 25, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already, listen, you hear the first harrows
Last Line: Each passing hour grows more young
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How deeply the cry of a bird can move us
Last Line: Let their clear stream carry the head and the lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are stirred by a bird's cry
Last Line: As a river bearing the head and the lyre
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 27, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does it really exist, this destroyer, time?
Last Line: Powers for divine uses
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, come and go, you almost child, enhancing
Last Line: Communion with your friend both feet and face
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh come and go. You, almost still a child
Last Line: Body toward the perfect celebration
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, come and go. You, almost a child, complete
Last Line: For once the whole and healing festival
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 29, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent friend of many distances, feel
Last Line: To the flashing water say: I am
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 29, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still friend of many distances, feel yet
Last Line: To the fleeting water speak: I am
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mirrors: no one has ever known how
Last Line: Narcissus penetrate, bright and unbound
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mirrors: still no one knowing has told
Last Line: Narcissus forces his way at last
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh this beast is the one that never was
Last Line: And was, inside the mirror and in her
Variant Title(s): Unicorn; This Is The Creatur
Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Unicorns


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, this is the animal that never was
Last Line: And was in the silver mirror and in her
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower-muscle that slowly opens back
Last Line: Shall we at last be open and receivers
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower-muscle of the anemone
Last Line: Are we receivers finally unfurled?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose, you majesty -- once, to the ancients, you were
Last Line: Which we prayed for from hours that belong to us
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses, you on a throne, in antiquity
Last Line: That we have begged from hours evocable
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers, you who are kin to the hands that arrange
Last Line: Relate you to those who in blossoming are your cousins
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers, finally to ordering hands related
Last Line: With them who are your confederates in blooming
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 75, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
Last Line: Joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You playmates of mine in the scattered parks of the city
Last Line: Oh a vanishing one, stepped under the plummeting ball
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You few playmates of childhood long ago
Last Line: Ah, dying, who walked under the falling ball
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 81, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over and over by us torn in two
Last Line: Because of a moer quiet instinct
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't boast, you judges, that you have dispensed with torture
Last Line: Like a quietly playing child of an infinite union
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not boast, you judges, of irons not clamped
Last Line: Like a quietly playing child of an infinite conception
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART: 17, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, in what ever-blissfully watered gardens, upon what trees
Last Line: To disturb that even-tempered summer's repose
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the creature there has never been
Last Line: Within the silver mirror and in her
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SONNETS: 1. BEETHOVEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As from the nebulous elemental sea
Last Line: Ere lapped in slumber with immortal love.
Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; World; Ocean


SORRENTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods are gone, the temples over-thrown
Last Line: And bind the myrtle buds to crown a purer venus.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Past; Roman Empire; Sorrento, Italy


SPECIMEN OF SAPPHO'S POETRY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did jove a queen of flowers decree
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SPRING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: On the banks of acheron
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SPRING'S MESSENGER, THE LOVELY VOICED NIGHTINGALE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SPRING, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound the flute!
Last Line: Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year.
Variant Title(s): Spring
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Spring


ST. DOROTHY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It hath been seen and yet it shall be seen
Last Line: That I may one day see her in the face.
Subject(s): God; Mythology - Classical; Saints; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women


ST. GEORGE'S PENITENTIARY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The learned and facetious dr. Airy
Last Line: Had we just now the time to write 'em.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Physicians; Doctors


STAND BESIDE ME, WORSHIPED HERA, STRANGE IN A DREAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Virgins ( %around
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


STANDARD OPERATIONS, by KEVIN FITZPATRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Icarus frantic in his wax-dripping wings
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


STAR OF EVENING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hesperus %you bring
Last Line: Home the mothers' darling
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (planet)


STARS AROUND THE LOVELY MOON, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over the earth her radiant glow
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


STARS AROUND THE LUMINOUS MOON - HOW SOON THEY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Glamors the landscape...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Stars


STARS AROUND THE MOON IN HER BEAUTY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: From our sight
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


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


STAYING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To say this
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


STEVENSON MAKES CONRAD WELCOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last you come, my fellow of the seas
Last Line: "how conrad's company will color heaven!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Fates (mythology); Heaven; Sea; Truth; Nightmares; Paradise; Ocean


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


SUPPLIANTS: CHORUS ON ZEUS (1), by AESCHYLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Secure it falls upon its feet, not upon its back
Last Line: From the holy throne where he is firmly seated %somehow he carries his thought into deed
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Religion


SUPREME SIGHT ON THE BLACK EARTH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say cavalry and others claim
Last Line: The chariots in lydia and foot soldiers armored %in glittering bronze
Variant Title(s): Some Say Cavalry And Others Clai
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SURELY ONCE YOU TOO WERE A DELICATE CHILD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For there is no pathway up great olympos %for humankind
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SURFACE EFFECTS IN SUMMER WIND, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm learning to remember the sound
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


SURFACE EFFECTS IN SUMMER WIND, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm learning to remember the sound
Last Line: In an idle man's hands, and summer ends
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


SUTURE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


SWALLOW, SWALLOW, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Why me, why me?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SWAMI VIVEKANANDA, by LAVINIA R. CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vivekananda, swami, now as near
Last Line: You taught that all religions lead to god.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Worship


SWEENEY AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apeneck sweeney spreads his knees
Last Line: To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Constellations; Decay; Mythology; Rot; Decadence


SWEET MOTHER, I CAN'T WEAVE MY WEB, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Because of slender aphrodite.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SWEETPEAS FLOWERED GOLDEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All over the marsh
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SWEETVOICED GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


SYBARIS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lap, ripple, lap, icarian wave, the sand
Last Line: Silvered the nymphs' feet, tripping o'er the green.
Subject(s): Mythology – Greek


SYLVAN APOLOGY, by MAURICE DU PLESSYS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You lie who say the gods have left the woods!
Last Line: Still drinks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Flandre-noblesse, Sylvan Francois Maurice
Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods


TABLET 7, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enkidu dreamed that the gods had met in council
Last Line: Gilgamesh is afraid and does not help me! %after that gilgamesh heard the death rattle
Subject(s): Mythology


TABLET 8, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With the first light of the early morning dawning
Last Line: Lazuli made, an offering of butter %these offerings to propitiate the god
Subject(s): Mythology


TELEMACHUS ON THE WATERFRONT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I listened to the utterance of an owl, I took
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


TELEMACHUS ON THE WATERFRONT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I listened to the utterance of an owl, I took
Last Line: Or white flag. I didn't want him to come home
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


TENDER GIRL PICKING FLOWERS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TENDERER THAN THE ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TENTH FLOOR, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Odysseus, never been here
Last Line: Before we vanish for good %and on time
Subject(s): Egypt; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sphinx; Ulysses


TEREUS PROCNE AND PHILOMELA [OVID: METAMORPHOSES BOOK 6,11.424-647], by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tereus of thrace had raised that siege
Last Line: With a huge beak in place of his long sword %the hoopoe which seems armed as though for war
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Holidays; Mythology - Classical; Victory; War


THALIA, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Since first you crowned the rustic's vernal feast
Last Line: And fortune's fiercest fling a futile boast.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology


THANK YOU, MY DEAR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: While you were gone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT LABOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thus I pray %that %I long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT LABOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I long
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT MAN, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green fleece shorts is taking off
Last Line: The poem doesn't think of him
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


THAT MAN IS PEER OF THE GODS, WHO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Paler than grass and lack little of dying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion


THAT MAN SEEMS TO HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THAT MAN SEEMS TO ME TO BE A GOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is, and I am, as far as I can see, %almost dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THE ANGEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked a thief to steal me a peach
Last Line: Enjoyed the lady.
Variant Title(s): "i Asked A Thief To Steal Me A Peach"";i Asked A Thief;
Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Crime & Criminals; Mythology


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 1. PRELUDE. ORPHEUS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The music of the sirens found
Last Line: About the coming of the lord!'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE ANGEL, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a dream! What can it mean
Last Line: And grey hairs were on my head.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Demeter devastated our good land
Last Line: For body, thou! To both art wine and bread!
Subject(s): Demeter; Mythology; Seasons; Ceres


THE ARGO NEARING COLCHIS, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, with the wind behind them, and the oars
Last Line: By many another farther and more near.
Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE AWAKENING SOUL, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a new spirit grieving
Last Line: That smooth the onward road.
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


THE BALLAD OF GREGORIE, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, I have now an argosy, a-sailing on the sea
Last Line: You'll live in peace and plenty on an island all your own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean


THE BALLAD OF LYCAON, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out spoke, then, jove to the gods above
Last Line: In the famished wolf was seen!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


THE BARBERRY BUSH, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Threading the wood, if I might see
Last Line: His brown immortal veery-thrush.
Subject(s): Mythology


THE BATHER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the sea-wind ruffles
Last Line: Of the fragrant daphne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Nudity; Rome, Italy; Sea; Nakedness; Ocean


THE BAYADERE, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near strange, weird temples, where the ganges' tide
Last Line: Lulls the grim, drowsy cobra on her arm.
Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Goddesses & Gods; India; Mythology; Temples; Mosques


THE BEAR MOTHER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She veils herself
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE BEAUTIFUL, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Incertitudes are buying shirts
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE BELLS OF SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate
Last Line: From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bells; Drowning; Goddesses & Gods; Lament; Mythology; Solitude; Loneliness


THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where thou dwellest, in what grove
Last Line: Among green leaves & blossoms sweet
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Mythology


THE BIRDS: THE HYMN OF THE BIRDS, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness
Last Line: That we are to you all as the manifest godhead that speaks in prophetic apollo?
Variant Title(s): Grand Chorus Of Birds;chorus Of Birds
Subject(s): Apollo; Birds; Mythology - Classical; Night; Bedtime


THE BIRTH OF VENUS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely we knew our darkling shore
Last Line: Your powers, one will be carruth
Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Child Birth; Midwifery


THE BIRTH OF VENUS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Risen in a / welter of waters
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay
Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World


THE BLACK-TAILED HARE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A grizzled black-eyed jackrabbit showed me
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE BLOSSOM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Merry merry sparrow!
Last Line: Near my bosom.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Flowers; Mythology


THE BLUE SKY, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eastward from here
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE BOOK OF AHANIA, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fuzon, on a chariot iron wing'd
Last Line: Before they see the light.
Subject(s): Bible; Lament; Mythology


THE BOOK OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eno, aged mother
Last Line: In darkness and deep clouds involvd.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


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


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE APPROACHETH THE HALL OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o my heart, my mother, my heart, my mother"
Last Line: "yea, millions-of-years, o my mother, my heart!"
Subject(s): Judgment Day;mythology - Egyptian; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE IS DECLARED TRUE OF WORD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thus saith the great god thoth
Last Line: And make me thy beloved'
Subject(s): Mythology - Egyptian;truth


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE IS LIKE THE LOTUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the pure lotus
Last Line: I blossom in the field
Subject(s): Mythology - Egyptian


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE KNOWETH THE SOULS OF THE WEST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: High on the mountain of sunrise where standeth the / temple of sebek
Last Line: "the lord of the mountain of sunset, and hathor, the / lady of evening"
Subject(s): Mythology - Egyptian;soul


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE SINGETH IN THE UNDERWORLD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pure is the body in the earth
Last Line: And goest on the way
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology - Egyptian


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE WALKETH BY DAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: "I am yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow"
Last Line: My spirit is god
Subject(s): Death;goddesses & Gods;mythology;mythology - Egyptian; "dead, The;


THE BOOK OF THEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The daughters of the seraphim led round their sunny flocks
Last Line: Or love in a golden bowl?
Variant Title(s): The Lament Of Thel
Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology


THE BOW OF ODYSSEUS, by GERHART HAUPTMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing but bitter toil and care! I never
Last Line: That I her favourite playthings broke so soon?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE BRIDGE: 8. ATLANTIS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the bound cable strands, the arching path
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Atlantis; Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Vision; Fancy


THE BUILDING OF THE ARGO, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When argos' sons, the golden fleece to gain
Last Line: Their swelling breasts and shapes half-human stood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Iolchos, Greece; Jason; Mythology - Classical


THE CAGEING OF ARES, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How big of breast our mother gaea laughed
Last Line: At loftier, clearer, sweeter, by their aid.
Subject(s): Fables; Mythology; War; Allegories


THE CANYON WREN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look up at the cliffs
Last Line: To purify our ears
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE CHARMS OF LIFE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What hath life to charm us? Flowers
Last Line: Life! How sumless are thy joys!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Charm; Echo (mythology); Flowers; Life


THE CHILD OF DESTINY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the hero-heart of the enchanted isle
Last Line: And shaking foamy heads toss the great ocean steeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Destiny


THE CHIMAERA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that the chimaera came
Last Line: This self from its eternity!
Subject(s): Chimera (greek Mythology)


THE CHIMERA'S KISS, by JEAN RICHEPIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fierce chimera's hooded eyes
Last Line: Immortal in one moment's bliss.
Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Mythology; Tears; Dead, The


THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little black thing among the snow
Last Line: "who make up a heaven of our misery."
Subject(s): Bible; Child Labor; Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Mythology


THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my mother died I was very young
Last Line: So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.
Subject(s): Bible; Child Labor; Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Mythology


THE CIRCUMAMBULATION OF MT. TAMALPAIS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking up and around the long ridge of tamalpais, 'bay
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love seeketh not itself to please
Last Line: "and builds a hell in heaven's despite."
Variant Title(s): True And False Love
Subject(s): Bible; Humility; Love; Mythology


THE CLOUD, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A cloud the far horizon scales
Last Line: Over her satin shoulder slim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Clouds; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


THE COCK AND THE FOX, OR THE TALE OF THE NUN'S PRIEST, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There lived, as authors tell, in days of yore
Last Line: So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind.
Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Cock And The Fox
Subject(s): Animals; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Widows & Widowers; Allegories


THE COMING OF NIAMH, by JAMES HENRY COUSINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Softly, as comes a wind across the sea
Last Line: Enthroned in vast, unutterable peace.
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


THE COMMONPLACE, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: By the steps of the paper-box factory
Last Line: Of love, and the commonplace things.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


THE COPULATING GODS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brushing back the curls from your famous brow
Last Line: They will concoct a scripture explaining this.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


THE COUNSEL OF PAN (UNTRACED LEGEND), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Venus, cast from heaven forlorn
Last Line: Piping to eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


THE CRANES OF IBYCUS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a man who watched the river flow
Last Line: Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!
Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Ibycus; Mythology - Classical


THE CRYSTAL CABINET, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maiden caught me in the wild
Last Line: I fill'd with woes the passing wind.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THE DAIRYMAIDS TO PAN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goatfoot, we know you
Last Line: To herd us our beasts.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


THE DANCE, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Izanami / gave birth to rocks, trees, rivers, mountains, grass
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE DAUGHTERS OF TROY, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let him who puts his trust in kingly crown
Last Line: The sea; the sails are set, the vessels move.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Trojan War


THE DAY OF THE DAUGHTER OF HADES, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who has looked upon earth
Last Line: On the path trod of all.
Subject(s): Hades; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


THE DEAD PAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gods of hellas, gods of hellas
Last Line: Pan, pan is dead.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


THE DEATH OF ADONIS, by THEOCRITUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When venus her adonis found
Last Line: His am'rous tusks sing'd in the flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


THE DEATH OF ARNKEL, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the roaring board in helgafell
Last Line: Virtue, nor welfare of th' unsceptred state.
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse


THE DEATH OF LEAG, CUCHULAIN'S CHARIOTEER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I only heard the loud ebb on the sand
Last Line: "they come to you with sleep."
Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland; Mythology; Heroes; Heroines; Irish


THE DEATH OF MYTH-MAKING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two virtues ride, by stallion, by nag
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mythology; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE DEATH OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soul of my much-lov'd freya! Yes, I come
Last Line: Then rush'd to seize the seat of endless rest.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Mythology - Celtic; Rome, Italy; War; Dead, The


THE DEATH OF THE GODS; AN ODE WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF PINDAR, by L. KER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I made the muses sick / by a new song
Last Line: Their power is gone, and my life is the token.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology


THE DEATH SONG OF ALCESTIS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She came forth in her bridal robes arrayed
Last Line: "for thee, for thee, my spirit's lord, I die!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alcestis (mythology); Death; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The


THE DEFILED SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a chapel all of gold
Last Line: And laid me down among the swine.
Variant Title(s): "i Saw A Chapel All Of Gold"";i Saw A Chapel;
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THE DEPARTURE OF PROSERPINE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old mother earth for me already grieves
Last Line: No secret turning leads from the gods' way.
Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE DESCENT OF ODIN; AN ODE, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uprose the king of men with speed
Last Line: Sinks the fabric of the world.
Variant Title(s): The Runic Rhyme
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse


THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell (sweet cooke-ham) where I first obtain'd
Last Line: Tying my heart to her by those rich chaines.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia
Subject(s): Farewell; Food & Eating; Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Parting


THE DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To mercy pity peace and love
Last Line: There god is dwelling too.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology


THE DOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In virgil's sacred verse we find
Last Line: Says he; for sure I touch his feather.
Subject(s): Cupid; Doves; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Eros; Vergil


THE DUST OF TIMAS, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This dust was timas; and they say
Last Line: They cut them off with sharpened shears.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


THE ECHOING GREEN, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun does arise, / and make happy the skies
Last Line: On the darkening green.
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Mythology; Night; Play; Childhood; Bedtime


THE ELWHA RIVER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a girl waiting by the roadside for my boyfriend to come in his
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE EMPTY PURSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank
Last Line: Drew our thoughts to earth's lowly for food.
Subject(s): Mythology; Wealth; Youth; Riches; Fortunes


THE ENTRANCE TO UNDERWORLD, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A common enough mistake
Last Line: At her first touch?
Variant Title(s): The Entrance To The Underworld
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Solitude; Loneliness


THE EPISODE OF NISUS AND EURYALUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nisus, the guardian of the portal, stood
Last Line: And vanquish'd millions hail their empress, rome!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical


THE EVERLASTING BATTLE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When in my shadowy hours I pierce the
Last Line: I am of dana's race divine and know I am immortal still.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Immortality; Mythology - Celtic; Optimism


THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was jesus humble or did he
Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL: PREFACE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will tell you what joseph of arimathea
Last Line: What I called humility they called pride
Subject(s): Bible; Humility; Mythology


THE FAIRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither my sparrows
Last Line: Of the marriage ring
Variant Title(s): The Marriage Ring
Subject(s): Bible; Fairies; Marriage; Mythology; Elves; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE FALL OF HEBE; A DITHYRMBIC ODE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a day
Last Line: The magic mantle of her solar god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE FAR BLUE HILLS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I lift my eyes and ye are ever there
Last Line: O far blue hills.
Subject(s): Hurricanes; Spirituality; Titans (mythology)


THE FAREWELL TO FOLLY: DESCRIPTION OF THE LADY MAESIA, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her stature and her shape were passing tall
Last Line: To show what nature's cunning could afford.
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women


THE FATAL SISTERS, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the storm begins to lower
Last Line: Hurry, hurry to the field.
Variant Title(s): An Ode From The Norse Tongue
Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Norse


THE FATES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fortune came to a youth one day and dressed
Last Line: But the whole crowd buried 'im.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Fates (mythology)


THE FAUN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The faun that haunts my fountain
Last Line: And kiss her lips with spray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Deer; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Pan (mythology)


THE FEAST OF THE GODS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a high tower I gazed at night
Last Line: One psalter. ... Will we never know these gods are dead, and cannot live?
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Imagism; Mythology; Stones; Granite; Rocks


THE FIND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I took a reed and blew a tune
Last Line: Upon a fairy mound.
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fairies; Mythology - Irish; Reeds; Elves


THE FIRE HYDRANT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little stump of a thing stuck on the curb of my street: dull as bark
Last Line: Eurydice.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the primeval priest's assum'd power
Last Line: 9. And the salt ocean rolled englob'd
Variant Title(s): The Book Of Urizen
Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Judgment Day; Mythology; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While we to jove select the holy victim
Last Line: Virtue and wealth; for both are of thy gift.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers


THE FIRST LAY OF GUDRUN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gudrun of old days
Last Line: Of the dead-slain sigurd
Subject(s): Death;mythology - Norse; "dead, The;


THE FLIGHT OF HELEN; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such sudden leaving
Last Line: Yes, and thyself, whom all these baubles please
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


THE FLOWING, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Head doused under the bronze
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE FLY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little fly, / thy summer's play
Last Line: Or if I die.
Subject(s): Bible; Flies; Mythology


THE FLYING HOUSE, AND THE MAY QUEEN ETERNAL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen venus, come now, be my heroine
Last Line: Even that cautious smile, has hints of you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE FOUR FATES, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The greeks had words for them. They were the parcae:
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIFTH AND SIXTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Infected mad he danced on his mountains high & dark as heaven
Last Line: In their progressions & preparing urizens path before him
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy


THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath
Last Line: Vala
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy


THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And los & enitharmon builded jerusalem weeping
Last Line: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy


THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then urizen arose the spectre fled & tharmas fled
Last Line: Babylon again in infancy calld natural religion
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy


THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now sat the king of light on high upon his starry throne
Last Line: Into unusual forms dancing & howling stamping the abyss
Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy


THE FOUR ZOAS: THE SONG OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will sing you a song of los, the eternal prophet
Last Line: Urizen wept.
Subject(s): Africa; Asia; Bible; Mythology; Far East; East Asia; Orient


THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead brood over europe: the cloud and vision descends over cheerful france
Last Line: Morning's beam.
Subject(s): Bible; French Revolution (1789); Mythology


THE GARDEN OF LOVE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went to the garden of love
Last Line: And binding with briars my joys & desires.
Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology; Religion; Theology


THE GARDENS OF ADONIS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, I would tell a ghostly thing
Last Line: And we, the summer long, shall bring thee flowers.
Subject(s): Adonis; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spring


THE GATES OF PARADISE; FOR CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is man!
Last Line: 16 I have said to the worm, thou art my mother & my sister
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THE GATES OF PARADISE; FOR THE SEXES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mutual forgiveness of each vice
Last Line: The lost travellers dream under the hill
Subject(s): Bible; Heaven; Mythology; Paradise


THE GHOST OF ABEL; A RELATION IN THE VISIONS OF JEHOVAH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What doest thou here, elijah?
Last Line: Mercy seat: each in his station fixt in the firmament by peace brotherhood and love.
Subject(s): Abel; Bible; Mythology


THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood before the throne
Last Line: The deep bursting emptiness of song.
Variant Title(s): Betrayals/hades, Eurydice, Orpheus
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Harps; Loss; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Lyres


THE GIFT OF APOLLO, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When orpheus' limbs, by thracian madness torn
Last Line: The men, whose pious rites appeas'd his favourite's shade.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


THE GOD-MAKER, MAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nevermore / shall the shepherds of arcady follow
Last Line: Humble, but open eyed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Future Life; God; Immortality; Mythology; Religion; Truth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology


THE GODDESS OF THE ISLANDERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the midmost page, the bookworm's pasturage
Last Line: And the opal's flame-fraught snows.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Islands; Mysticism; Mythology; Writing & Writers


THE GODS AND THE WINDS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The still gods, though they move apart
Last Line: "we won our godship far too young."
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Railroads; Wind; Railways; Trains


THE GODS OF GREECE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst the smiling earth ye governed still
Last Line: Of you living image bright!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In eldest times, when kings and hardy chiefs
Last Line: Of pipes unnumbered, for the ram regained.
Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But jason, going swiftly with good heart
Last Line: That loudly clanged his armor therewithal.
Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by OSCAR WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know that life is jason
Last Line: Still coiled around the trunk of the tree of paradise.
Subject(s): Golden Fleece (mythology); Jason


THE GOLDEN NET, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three virgins at the break of day
Last Line: O when will the morning rise
Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology


THE GOOD FURIES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From time to time I meet with those who cry
Last Line: And carry there their flowers -- and grieve no more!
Subject(s): Mythology; Punishment; Sin; Soul


THE GREAT GOD PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O pan is the goodliest god, I wist,
Last Line: To his rollicking wraith below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wind


THE GREY MONK, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I die, I die!' the mother said
Last Line: And became a tyrant in his stead
Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Fancy


THE HALT IN THE GARDEN, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hesperides? Right here! The faithful keeper
Last Line: Yonder's a chian vintage. Fill your cup!
Subject(s): Immortality; Mythology - Classical


THE HESPERIDES, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The north-wind fall'n, in the new-starred night
Last Line: Standing about the charmed root.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology)


THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN: BRUTUS' PRAYER TO DIANA, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddess of shades, and huntress, who at will
Last Line: Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical; English History


THE HOMERIC HYMN: THE THE DELIAN APOLLO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall remember - how can I forget?
Last Line: "god of the silver bow, whom leto bare - / leto, the lovely-tress'd"
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE HOUSE, by BENNETT WEAVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Troy is for beauty, the far, the broken
Last Line: Stolen away and returning no more.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy


THE HOUSEWIFE; ADDRESSED TO LYSANDER, by ELIZABETH MOODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou that with deciding voice oft sways
Last Line: When woman's knowledge own'd its boundary here!
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Housewives; Mythology; Women


THE HUMAN ABSTRACT, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity would be nor more / if we did not make somebody poor
Last Line: There grows one in the human brain.
Subject(s): Bible; Cruelty; Hypocrisy; Mythology


THE HUNTING OF DIAN, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the silence of a midnight lost, lost forevermore
Last Line: As far away I heard the cry her dim sea-lover gave.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Diana (goddess); Eden; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women; Hunters; Male-female Relations


THE ILIAD: ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So saying, light-footed iris pass'd away
Last Line: To war, but never welcomed his return.
Variant Title(s): Achilles On The Rampart;achilles Defies The Trojans
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


THE ILIAD: AGAMENON IN THE FIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest
Last Line: Flat upon earth, far dearer to vultures than to their home-mates.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wrath of peleus' son that evil wrath
Last Line: And golden-throned here by his side.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wrath of peleus son, o muse, resound
Last Line: And juno lay unheeded by his side.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1. THE BEGINNING OF THE WRATH, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who of the gods set on those two to strife?
Last Line: Of dead were burning thickly.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1. THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles' wrath, to greece the direful spring
Last Line: And juno slumber'd on the golden bed.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 10. THE NIGHT ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the chiefs before their vessels lay
Last Line: And the crown'd goblet foams with floods of wine.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ILIAD: BOOK 11. THE RESISTANCE OF AJAX, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But the eternal father throned on high / with fear fill'd ajax
Last Line: Their disappointed fury in the ground.
Variant Title(s): Ajax In The Fight
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 11. THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The saffron morn, with early blushes spread
Last Line: The wound to torture and the blood to flow.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON AND GLAUCUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not then / withal had doughty hektor and his men
Last Line: Nor disregard.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ye see, a mountaine lion fare
Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucus
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While thus the hero's pious cares attend
Last Line: The shore is heap'd with dead, and tumult rends the sky.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE SNOW OF STONES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus shouting onward these twain roused the achaian battle
Last Line: Amid the tumult rising along the wall's whole length.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE WALL, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So was menoetius' valiant son employed
Last Line: With limpid course, and pleasant as before.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 13. THE FOURTH BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When now the thunderer on the sea-beat coast
Last Line: Shook the fix'd splendours of the throne of jove.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 14. JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But not the genial feast, nor flowing bowl
Last Line: Skill'd in pursuit, and swiftest in the chase.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 15. AJAX ON THE DECKS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor yet did it please the spirit of high-hearted aias
Last Line: Host along with him.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 15. APOLLO DESTROYS THE WALL, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He said: and on his horses' shoulder-point
Last Line: Confounding, sentest panic through their souls.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy


THE ILIAD: BOOK 15. THE FIFTH BATTLE, AT THE SHIPS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in swift flight they pass the trench profound
Last Line: Sent by great ajax to the shades of hell.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. ACHILLES AND PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So round that sturdy ship the battle raged
Last Line: Dark death and fate.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. ACHILLES LENDS PATROCLUS HIS ARMOR, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles then within his tent withdrew
Last Line: He granted; but denied his safe return.
Variant Title(s): Achilles' Prayer
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. THE DEATH OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But hector, when he saw great-heart patroclus
Last Line: The gods gave peleus as a glorious gift.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. THE SIXTH BATTLE, & THE ACTS & DEATH OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So warr'd both armies on th' ensanguined shore
Last Line: Th' immortal coursers were the gift of jove.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. PATROCULUS' BODY SAVED, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So they carried the dead man out of the fighting
Last Line: Piece of gear -- and still no pause in the fighting.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And thus they fought; the iron clangour pierced
Last Line: Amid the greeks and trojans lightly bore.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. THE SEVENTH BATTLE, FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the cold earth divine patroclus spread
Last Line: The work of death, and still the battle bleeds.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 18. ACHILLES AND THETIS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Therewith she left the cave, and with her went
Last Line: Wish to fulfil it.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, & NEW ARMOUR MADE BY VULCAN, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, like the raging of the fire, the combat burns
Last Line: And bears the blazing present through the skies.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 18. THETIS AND HEPHAETUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She called the famous smith hephaestus, saying
Last Line: Have learned their duties.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 19. THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon as aurora heaved her orient head
Last Line: "now perish troy!"" -- he said, and rush'd to fight."
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1; SELECTION IN HEXAMETERS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, o daughter of heaven, of peleus' son, of achilles
Last Line: "grant that of yon proud walls not one stone rest on another."
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So all else - gods, and charioted chiefs
Last Line: From lycia far, where whirls scamander's stream.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 2. THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now pleasing sleep had sealed each mortal eye
Last Line: Where gulfy xanthus foams along the fields.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 2. THERSITES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all sat down / and kept their seats, save one, thersites
Last Line: Else, son of atreus, that flout had been your last!'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 20. THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus round pelides, breathing war and blood
Last Line: Such is the lust of never-dying fame!
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 21. ACHILLES AND LYCAON, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So did the son of priam, the princely, speak his word
Last Line: When you fought by the light-sped ships and I turned not to fight again.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 21. ACHILLES AND THE SCAMANDER, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round achilles rose / the boiling wave tremendous
Last Line: Are forceful beyond men.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 21. THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER SCAMANDER, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now to xanthus' gliding stream they drove
Last Line: And nations breathe, deliver'd from their fate.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, to their bulwarks, smit with panic fear
Last Line: Sigh back her sighs, and answer tear with tear.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE PURSUIT AROUND THE WALLS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus pondering he stood; meantime approached
Last Line: Of priam compass'd. All the gods looked on.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 23. FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOR OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, humbled in the dust, the pensive train
Last Line: The glittering charger to talthybius' hands.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 23. THE GHOST OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul came to him of his hapless friend
Last Line: His last requests, just image of himself.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM AND ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With these words hermes sped away for lofty olympos
Last Line: Lest I in anger offend mine own honour and sin against god.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 24. THE LAMENTATIONS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of their lament white-armed andromache
Last Line: A cry.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 24. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now from the finish'd games in the grecian band
Last Line: And peaceful slept the mighty hector's shade.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. HELEN, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So saying, the goddess into helen's soul
Last Line: By nuptial ties a brother once to me.'
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. MENELAUS AND ODYSSEUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then answer thus antenor sage return'd
Last Line: Found none, to wonder at his noble form.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE ADVANCE OF THE TROJANS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now marshall'd all beneath their several chiefs
Last Line: Uprose the dust, for swift they cross the plain.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE DUEL OF MENELAUS AND PARIS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, by their leader's care, each martial band
Last Line: And long the shout rung echoing through the skies.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 4. THE BREACH OF THE TRUCE, AND THE FIRST BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now olympus' shining gates unfold
Last Line: And crowds on crowds triumphantly expired.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 4. THE TWO HOSTS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when the billow gathers fast
Last Line: And men the more lament.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 5. THE ACTS OF DIOMED, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But pallas now tydides' soul inspires
Last Line: Their task perform'd, and mix among the gods.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 5. THE RALLY, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sarpedon's words bit deep in hector's heart
Last Line: Joined, and the chariot-drivers swung them round.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 6. GLAUCCUS AND DIOMED & HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now heaven forsakes the fight, th' immortals yield
Last Line: "and greece indignant through her seas returns."
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 6. HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hektor turned / back from his house with speed
Last Line: Went home, shedding hot tears.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 6. THE STORY OF BELLEROPHON, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And the glorious son of hippolochus answered him
Last Line: Therein.
Subject(s): Bellerophon; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 7. THE SINGLE COMBAT OF HOMER AND AJAX, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So spoke the guardian of the trojan state
Last Line: Enjoy'd the balmy blessings of the night.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 8, SELECTION, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As in the heights of heaven the moon gleams clear, and around her
Last Line: Roused them, their good steeds stood, white oats and barley before them.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 8. A PAUSE IN THE FIGHTING, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So hector spake; the trojans roared applause
Last Line: Fixt by their cars, waited the golden dawn.
Variant Title(s): Trojans Bivouac On The Plain;specimen Of A Translation Of The Iliad In Blank Verse;the Trojan Camp-fires
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE SCALES OF ZEUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Till sacred morn had brightened into noon
Last Line: Astonish'd stood; fear whiten'd ev'ry cheek.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn
Last Line: And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 9. ACHILLES' REPLY TO THE EMBASSY, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then swift achilles answered him, saying
Last Line: Whose men are high of heart.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE APPEAL OF PHOENIX, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Conquer the proud spirit in your breast, child, seeing it is not
Last Line: Of the divine crondies: respect wins over the wisest.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus joyful troy maintain'd the watch of night
Last Line: The grateful blessings of desired repose.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: HYPNOS ON IDA, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They then to fountain-abundant ida, mother of wild beasts
Last Line: Chalkis is named by the gods, but of mortals known as kymindis.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: MARSHALLING OF THE ACHAIANS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as a terrible fire feeds fast on a forest enormous
Last Line: He with the girdle of ares, he with the breast of poseidon.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: PARIS AND DIOMEDES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, uttering thiswise
Last Line: Rotting, round him the birds, more numerous they than the women.'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE ILIAD: THE EPISODE OF SARPEDON (2), by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When now the chief his valiant friends beheld
Last Line: Where endless honours wait the sacred shade.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So now the horses of aiakides, off wide of the war-ground
Last Line: Aught over earth's range found that is gifted with breath and has movement.'
Subject(s): Achilles; Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: THE INVECTIVE OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heigh me! Brazen of front, thou glutton for plunder, how cane one
Last Line: Rage-wrung, thou, that in nought thou didst honour the flower of achaians.'
Subject(s): Heroism; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Heroes; Heroines


THE IMAGE BOY, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er has trudged, on frequent feet
Last Line: "and his, poor boy, are on it!"
Subject(s): London; Memory; Mythology; Poetry & Poets


THE INDIAN EMPEROR: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To all and singular in this full meeting
Last Line: Wit live by beauty, beauty reign by wit.
Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Love; Mythology - Classical


THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below
Last Line: They slide to us and air.
Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs


THE INNER TEMPLE MASQUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Steer hither, steer, your winged pines
Last Line: He stay'd not longer here, but ran to be more idly spent.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); Sailing & Sailors


THE ISLES OF THE SIRENS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease, stranger, cease those piercing notes
Last Line: The man of many woes.
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


THE JUDGEMENT OF TIRESIAS, by HILDEBRAND JACOB    Poem Text                    
First Line: When willing nymphs and swains unite / in quest of amorous delight
Last Line: That party best obtains its end.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judgments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE JUDGMENT OF VENUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When kneller's works of various grace
Last Line: Or venus must to hyde.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judgments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE KING'S THRESHOLD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I welcome you that have the mastery
Last Line: The end
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic


THE KINGDOM, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas the ominous month of october
Last Line: "receive, and believe, as a child."
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mythology; Dead, The; Paradise


THE LABOURER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a heracles in his fighting ire there is never the glory that follows
Last Line: Trust.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mythology; Work; Workers


THE LADLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The sceptics think, 'twas long ago
Last Line: Tis all a wish, and all a ladle.
Subject(s): Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; War; Youth; Allegories


THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little lamb, who made thee: / dost thou know who made thee?
Last Line: Little lamb god bless thee.
Variant Title(s): The Lamb
Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Lambs; Mythology; Religion; Theology


THE LAMENT OF DARTHOOL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O woods of oona, I can hear the singing
Last Line: The cuckoos calling by the murmuring stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Home; Lament; Mourning; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Bereavement


THE LAMENTATION OF DANAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, in the carven chest
Last Line: As peacefully as thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Variant Title(s): Danae Cast Adrift
Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical


THE LAMP OF HERO, by LOUISE VICTORINE ACKERMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hero's lover, reckless of the storm
Last Line: To cheer our sinking souls!
Alternate Author Name(s): Choquet, Louise Victorine
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Lamps; Mythology; Leander


THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee
Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish


THE LAND OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake, awake, my little boy!
Last Line: "above the light of the morning star."
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep


THE LAST OF HELEN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring. A hid land of sodden sickly sleep
Last Line: Her heart that is both present and forgotten.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


THE LILY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The modest rose puts forth a thorn
Last Line: Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Lilies; Mythology


THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother bore me in the southern wild
Last Line: And be like him, and he will then love me.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Brotherhood; Freedom; Mothers; Mythology; Racism; Liberty; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE LITTLE BOY FOUND, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little boy lost in the lonely fen
Last Line: Her little boy weeping sought.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THE LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father! Father! Where are you going?
Last Line: And away the vapour flew.
Subject(s): Bible; Loss; Mythology


THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the night in woe
Last Line: Nor the lion's growl.
Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Lions; Mythology


THE LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In futurity / I prophetic see
Last Line: To caves the sleeping maid.
Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Loss; Mythology


THE LITTLE MERMAID'S FORTUNE TELLER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Refracted through your tide-washed hours, this prince
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE LITTLE VAGABOND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold
Last Line: But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bible; Mythology; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


THE LONGBEARDS' SAGA, A.D. 400, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the camp-fires
Last Line: "no need of me!"
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse


THE LORDS OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees
Last Line: And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Shadows; Vision; Dead, The; Elves


THE LORELEI, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At bacharach was a sorceress with flaxen locks
Last Line: With hair of the sunlight and with eyes of the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


THE LORELEI, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not whence it rises
Last Line: The lore-lei hath done!
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes
Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years.
Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean


THE LOTOS-EATERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land
Last Line: O rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The Lotus-eaters
Subject(s): Lotus; Mythology - Classical; Rest; Ulysses; Lotos; Odysseus


THE LOTUS-EATERS; ULYSSES TO PENELOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a far distant land they dwell
Last Line: All things resting everywhere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus


THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come
Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


THE LOWER WORLD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a time poor pluto sigh'd thus
Last Line: "a faded life, love lost for ever!"
Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE LULLABY OF DANAE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little one, thy mother's weeping
Last Line: Rest thee, rest thee, little one!
Subject(s): Danae; Mothers; Mythology - Classical


THE MAENADS, by GREGORY ORR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maenads came to me
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE MARKET, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of the city
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE MARRIAGE (1), by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The season's leaves half over at their peak
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill
Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song.
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air
Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy
Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE MASTER SINGER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A laughter in the diamond air, a music in
Last Line: "and with the fiery-footed watchers shake in myriad dance and song."
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Singing & Singers


THE MENTAL TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travel'd thro' a land of men
Last Line: And all is done as I have told.
Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Fancy; Theology


THE MOON, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright stars, around the fair selene peering
Last Line: Floods the world over.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


THE MOON OF MIND AGAINST THE WOODEN LOUVER, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The visitors in room 8509
Last Line: Fence from our despair, our rage, our bitter greedy fear.
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fear; Healing; Hospitals; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Illness; Feminism


THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ceaseless wheel of lives
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THE MOURNING-GARMENT: HEXAMETRA ALEXIS IN LAUDEM ROSAMUNDI, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft have I heard my lief coridon report on a love-day
Last Line: "for there is one, more fair than thou, belov'd of alexis""!"
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


THE MOURNING-GARMENT: HEXAMETRA ROSAMUNDAE AE IN DOLOREM AMISSI ALEXIS, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tempe, the grove where dark hecate doth keep
Last Line: Yet rosamond did die for love, false-hearted alexis!
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MOURNING-GARMENT: PHILADOR'S ODE, HE LEFT WITH DESPAIRING LOVER, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When merry autumn in her prime
Last Line: And counted love but venus' mocks.
Subject(s): Despair; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Odes (as Poetic Form)


THE NEW APHRODITE, by WILLIAM PETERFIELD TRENT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the deep sea - stream
Last Line: Daughter of god.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


THE NIGHTINGALE, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dear good angel of the spring
Last Line: The nightingale.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


THE NINTH DAWN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not for nothing we notice a wider theme
Last Line: All along, will swarm out again under the pliant boughs
Subject(s): Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Passion


THE NORMAN POET'S REWARD, by CHARLES THEOPHILE FERET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look not for gold -- the sickly sons of ease
Last Line: -- the skald's undying ecstasy!
Subject(s): Fame; Love; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Poetry & Poets - French; Reputation


THE NORSEMAN'S RIDE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The frosty fires of northern starlight
Last Line: "gleam surtur's hoofs of gold!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Mythology; Silence; Singing & Singers; World


THE ODYSSEY, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As one that for a weary space has lain
Last Line: The surge and thunder of the odyssey.
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods in council sit, to call
Last Line: About the task that pallas had design'd.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. MINERVA'S DESCENT TO ITHACA, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man, for wisdom's various arts renown'd
Last Line: And in his raptured soul the vision glows.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ulysses now relates to us
Last Line: This way, or that bent; still his ways are free.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. ADVENTURES WITH AEOLUS, LAESTRYGONES, & CIRCE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At length we reach'd aeolia's sea-girt shore
Last Line: "who eyes their motion? Who shall trace their way?"
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. PHAECIAN NIGHTS: 1. OF THE LAESTRYGONES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thither when we came
Last Line: Those other ships were lost there in a pack.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. PHAECIAN NIGHTS: 2. OF CIRCE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then my well-greaved fellows I numberedm into two companies
Last Line: Whereof the swine earth-wallowing are wont to make their meat.
Subject(s): Circe; Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ulysses' way to hell appears
Last Line: Our oars and forewinds speedy passage gave.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. DESCENT INTO HELL, AND CONVERSATION WITH SHADES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now to the shores we bend, a mournful train
Last Line: "sing through the shrouds, and stretch the swelling sails."
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. ENCOUNTER WITH THE SHADE OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He spake, to whom I, answ'ring, thus replied
Last Line: Than sov'reign empire hold o'er all the shades.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. PHAECIAN NIGHTS: OF HIS MOTHER'S SHADE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So saying back to the dark house the ghost
Last Line: And grief waxed ever keener at my heart.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. PHAECIAN NIGHTS: OF THE SHADE OF AJAX, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So I: when swift achilles' long-limbed ghost
Last Line: To darkness, with the souls of men outworn.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 12, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He shows from hell his safe retreat
Last Line: "were past my free contentment to sustain."
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 12. THE SIRENS; SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus o'er the rolling surge the vessel flies
Last Line: "and what so tedious as a twice-told tale?"
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. ARRIVAL OF ULYSSES IN ITHACA, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear
Last Line: To sparta flies, telemachus her care.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. HOME-COMING, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now at the hour when brightest shone on high
Last Line: Still wrapped, as fast in slumber deep he lay.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 14. THE MEETING AND CONVERSATION WITH EUMAEUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But he, deep-musing, o'er the mountains stray'd
Last Line: Where, screen'd from boreas, high o'er-arch'd they lay.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 15. THE RETURN OF TELEMACHUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now had minerva reach'd those ample plains
Last Line: And reach'd the mansion of his faithful swain.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 16. TELLEMACHUS FINDS HIS FATHER, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He said, and urged him forth, who binding on
Last Line: Of tenderest grief.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 16. THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO TELEMACHUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon as the morning blush'd along the plains
Last Line: And in soft sleep forgot the cares of day.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 17. TRAVELS OF TELEMACHUS; BEHAVIOR OF THE SUITORS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon as aurora, daughter of the dawn
Last Line: The sun obliquely shot his dewy ray.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 18. THE FIGHT BETWEEN ULYSSES AND IRUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While fix'd in thought the pensive hero sate
Last Line: And, rushing forth, tumultuous reel away.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 19. THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO EURYCLEA, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consulting secret with the blue-eyed maid
Last Line: And o'er her eyes ambrosial slumber shed.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 2, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Telemachus to court doth call
Last Line: And all day long, their voyage did dispose.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 2. THE COUNCIL OF ITHACA; DEPARTURE OF TELEMACHUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now reddening from the dawn, the morning-ray
Last Line: And end their voyage with the morning ray.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 2. THE WEB, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Indignantly he spoke, and dashed to earth
Last Line: High flying from the mountain top.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 20. MINERVA APPEARS AGAIN TO ULYSSES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ample hide divine ulysses spread
Last Line: A feast of death! The feasters doom'd to bleed!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 20. PENELOPE DREAMS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But when her heart had had its fill of weeping
Last Line: But good odysseus heard her as she wept.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 21. THE BENDING OF ULYSSES' BOW; OMEN FROM JUPITER, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And pallas now to raise the rivals' fires
Last Line: The beamy javelin lightens in his hand.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 22. DEATH OF SUITORS AND RECOGNITION OF ULYSSES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then fierce the hero o'er the threshold strode
Last Line: Ev'n he indulges the sweet joy of tears.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 22. THE SLAYING, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But about his house peered odysseus, if yet a man there were
Last Line: So through their wanton folly met they loathly end to-day.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 23. INTERVIEW OF PENELOPE AND ULYSSES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then to the queen, as in repose she lay
Last Line: The latent warriors in a veil of clouds.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. LAERTES (1), by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With that he gave the thralls his battle-gear
Last Line: Beneath a pear-tree tall and shed a tear.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. LAERTES (2), by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thereat laertes answered him and said
Last Line: Caught up his father fainting unto him.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. THE LAST JOURNEY OF THE WOOERS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now cyllenian hermes summoned forth
Last Line: Simulars of the dead.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. ULYSSES VISITS HIS FATHER, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cyllenius now to pluto's dreary reign
Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 3, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Telemachus, and heaven's wise dame
Last Line: And shadows all ways through the earth were thrown.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. AT PYLOS: A FALSE WIFE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But wise telemachus returned reply
Last Line: His ships freight-laden full as they could hold.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. AT PYLOS: MEMORIES OF TROY, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And nestor, the gerenian knight, replied
Last Line: So young a man might have such mastery.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Troy


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. THE INTERVIEW OF TELEMACHUS AND NESTOR, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sacred sun, above the waters raised
Last Line: And o'er the shaded landscape rush'd the night.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 4, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Received now in the spartan court
Last Line: The wooers hoped to make their massacre.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 4. PENELOPE FORLORN, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And medon answer made, the man of skill
Last Line: Had I, nor knew I of his setting forth.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 4. THE CONFERENCE OF TELEMACHUS WITH MENELAUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now proud sparta with their wheels resounds
Last Line: And in close ambush wait the murderous deed.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A second court on jove attends
Last Line: Quickly concluded in his closed eyes.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. MERCURY VISITS CALYPSO'S ISLAND, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stoopt pierea, and thence
Last Line: His heart of comfort.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. ODYSSEUS PUTS TO SEA: THE SWIMMING, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days and nights upon the long smooth swell
Last Line: Being clear of rocks and sheltered for a space.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. ODYSSEUS PUTS TO SEA: WRECK OF THE RAFT, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So spake he, and the clouds at his command
Last Line: And now east wind to west gave up the chase.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. THE DEPARTURE OF ULYSSES FROM CALYPSO, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The saffron morn, with early blushes spread
Last Line: Lull'd all his cares, and banish'd all his woes.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 6, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Minerva in a vision stands
Last Line: Till with his country shore he crown'd his peace.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. NAUSICAA, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when at last they arrived at the beautiful stream of the river
Last Line: Joy to the wishers of good; but the joy in their hearts is the loudest.'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. ULYSSES DISCOVERED BY NAUSICAE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While thus the weary wanderer sunk to rest
Last Line: Till great ulysses hail'd his native land.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 7, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nausicaa arrives in town
Last Line: And by her lord reposed her reverend head.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 7. THE COURT OF ALCINOUS; RECEPTION OF ULYSSES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The patient, heavenly man thus suppliant pray'd
Last Line: And fast beside were closed arete's eyes.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 8, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The peers of the phaeacian state
Last Line: True wisdom is, that blood and birth transcends.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 8. ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN TO ULYSSES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now fair aurora lifts her golden ray
Last Line: "and claim'd by merit, not by blood, the heart?"
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 9, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ulysses here is first made known
Last Line: And yet had comfort since we lost no more.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. ADVENTURES OF THE CICONS, LOTOPHAGI AND CYCLOPS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then thus ulysses: 'thou whom first in sway
Last Line: "glad for the living, for the dead in tears."
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. PHAECIAN NIGHTS: 1. OF NORMAL AND CYCLOPS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So I spake, and he took it and drank, and became exceeding fain
Last Line: At my name that had so beguiled him and my worthy rede and proud.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. PHAECIAN NIGHTS: 2. OF CYCLOPS AND THE RAM, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But when the mother of morning, rose-fingered day-dawn, shone
Last Line: And then first from the ram I loosed me, and my fellows presently.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: BOOKS 21-22. THE SLAYING, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So he spake, and all the wooers laughed on him pleasantly
Last Line: So spake, and the bitter shaft on antinous then he turned.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE ODYSSEY: THE BUTCHERS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When he had made sure there were no survivors in his house
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ODYSSEY: THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies
Last Line: The people one, and one supplies the king.
Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm the old man of the sea - I
Last Line: I'm the old man of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean


THE OLD SHIPS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep
Last Line: And the whole deck put on its leaves again.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus


THE OLYMPIAN IN AUTUMN, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The goddess stood among the falling leaves
Last Line: And did not hear the falling of the leaves.
Subject(s): Autumn; Goddesses & Gods; Leaves; Mythology; Seasons; Fall


THE ORACLE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To phoebus' shrine three youths of fame
Last Line: "none in the dust the wrestler lay!"
Subject(s): Apollo; Delphi; Mythology - Classical; Castri


THE ORPHARION: ORPHEUS' SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He that did sing the motions of the stars
Last Line: To take in love and lose it with a wink.
Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE OXEN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock
Last Line: Hoping it might be so.
Subject(s): Animals; Christianity; Christmas; Mythology; Oxen; Nativity, The


THE PAGAN PAST, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What sylvan god was worshipped here?
Last Line: I sail, companioned by the past.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Pan (mythology); Past; Dead, The


THE PALACE OF AEETES, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst these thoughts, between the fair streets led
Last Line: Upon the polished edges of the stream.
Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE PALACE OF PAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September, all glorious with gold, as a king
Last Line: Pine ridge: september, 1893.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); September; Temples; Mosques


THE PASSING OF CAOILTE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas just before the truce sang thro' the din
Last Line: And where they went away what man has heard?
Subject(s): Heroism; Mythology - Australian; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Heroes; Heroines


THE PHOENICIAN WOMEN, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O guide of thy blind father, only cheer
Last Line: Is ever for imperial power paid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Oedipus; Tragedy


THE PHOENIX TO MRS. BUTTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a bird rise from the east
Last Line: Then it flies on glancing wing
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Phoenix (mythical Bird)


THE PILLARS OF HERCULES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here ends at last the inland sea!
Last Line: Steer oceanward by god's fixed stars!
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ocean


THE PIPES O' PAN, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great nature had a million words
Last Line: Till music filled the pipes o' pan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


THE PIPES OF PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pipes of pan! Not idler now
Last Line: Whetting his hunger on an empty shell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


THE POEM AS MASK, by HUMBERT WOLFE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE POET AND THE ALCHEMIST, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Authors of modern date are wealthy fellows
Last Line: "simply by liking what we have!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets


THE POET'S JOURNAL: PREFACE. THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not as in youth, with steps outspeeding morn
Last Line: Pardoned, and loved again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Shame; Youth


THE POOR STUDENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With song elate we celebrate
Last Line: O'er his immortal soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Poverty; Schools; Soul; Students


THE PROPHECY OF VALA, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have walked with the fates and the furies 'mid
Last Line: "fare you well! I go—I go!'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Mythology; Prophecy & Prophets


THE PROUDEST FRUIT, by ELIZABETH MORROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apples are the proudest fruit
Last Line: Immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE PSYCHE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a strain of wondrous music rising up in cloister dim
Last Line: So, in perfect loving blended, bliss would never know alloy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Singing & Singers


THE QUESTION ANSWER'D, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it men in women do require?
Last Line: The lineaments of gratified desire.
Variant Title(s): A Question Answered
Subject(s): Bible; Desire; Love - Marital; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE RACE OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud was the hostile clang of arms
Last Line: "she falls—and lo, the world again is free!"
Subject(s): Freedom; Mythology - Celtic; War; Liberty


THE RAPE OF AURORA, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never, o never / since dewy sweet flora
Last Line: For the nymph he was singling.
Subject(s): Mythology; Rape


THE RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see myself sometimes, an old man
Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The veteran greeks came home
Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey


THE RUNES ON WELAND'S SWORD, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A smith makes me
Last Line: But for the thing.
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse


THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Priests of apollo, sacred be the roome
Last Line: Sound, whilst his altars endlesse flames expire.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Sacrifices


THE SAIL OF ULYSSES, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the shape of his sail, ulysses
Variant Title(s): Presence Of An External Master Of Knowledge
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE SAILING OF THE ARGO, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By juno, kindled in the heros' breasts
Last Line: Dizzied with scourge of strange desire.
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Iolchos, Greece; Jason; Mythology - Classical


THE SCHOOL BOY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to rise in a summer morn
Last Line: When the blasts of winter appear?
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Schools; Students


THE SEA-BORN VINE (A DIONYSIAC LEGEND), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun leapt up the rose-flushed sky
Last Line: Ai evoe be vain indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vines And Vineyards; Ocean


THE SECULAR MASQUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An hundred times the rowling sun
Last Line: Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriours, and lovers.
Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Plays & Playwrights ; War; World; Human Race; Dramatists


THE SHADOWY WATERS: THE HARP OF AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Edain came out of midhir's hill, and lay
Last Line: But faithful lovers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Mythology – Irish


THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a youth upon the earth
Last Line: Their firstborn brother as a god.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a youth upon the earth
Last Line: Their firstborn brother as a god.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


THE SHEPHERD, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot
Last Line: For they know when their shepherd is nigh.
Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Mythology; Shepherds & Shepherdesses


THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She looked over his shoulder
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields


THE SHIPWRECK OF IDOMENEUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night
Last Line: And sees not, but the gods look down on both.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Mythology; Sea; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Ocean


THE SHRIEK OF PROMETHEUS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fresh was the breeze and the rowers plied
Last Line: Those throbbing hearts along the pontic shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Jason; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Prometheus


THE SHRINE OF VENUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small is the chapel where I make my home
Last Line: In love's wild storms, or on the raging sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE SHRINE OF VENUS, by ANYTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair aphrodite, from this marble fane
Last Line: Beholds her image, and is lull'd asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE SICK ROSE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O rose, thou art sick!
Last Line: Does thy life destroy.
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Despair; Flowers; Mythology; Roses; Worms; Dead, The


THE SIGN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not centaur nor archer but man
Last Line: Bounding away into his green clear music.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Mythology; Night; Bedtime


THE SILENT SINGERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And proserpine, still fragrant of the air
Last Line: But pluto's mouth, o mother proserpine!
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The


THE SIRENS, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the quiet bay / at end of day
Last Line: Better than that fair land and fatal singing.
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


THE SIRENS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary
Last Line: "here is rest and peace for thee!"
Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ocean


THE SLAVE MARKET, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In bronze (true flesh of thought) stern shifting contours
Last Line: Pass thou and gaze, she is more greatly thine.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


THE SMILE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a smile of love
Last Line: There's an end to all misery.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Smiles


THE SOLSEQUIUM, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like [lak] as the dumb solsequium, with care
Last Line: Fareweill, with patience perforce till day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Mythology - Classical; Sun


THE SONG OF AEIFA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speed hence, speed hence, o lone white swans
Last Line: At the ringing of christ's bell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Death; Jesus Christ; Mythology - Celtic; Swans; Dead, The


THE SONG OF COURTESY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sir gawain was led to his bridal-bed
Last Line: Beautiful by courtesy!
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Mythology; Arthur, King


THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy our father lir afar
Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery


THE SPINNING WOMAN, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning and evening, sleep she drove away
Last Line: (andrew lang)
Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Dead, The


THE SPIRIT'S WARFARE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To find the western path
Last Line: Ascends the sky
Variant Title(s): Morning
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THE STAR SIRIUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright sirius! That when orion pales
Last Line: Has viewed and felt them sweep her as a lyre.
Subject(s): Mythology; Stars; Sun


THE STATUE TO PYGMALION, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gaze on! I thrill beneath thy gaze
Last Line: Great jove! I love, and therefore live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Kisses; Mythology; Statues


THE STORY OF ECHO, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A beautiful maiden was echo
Last Line: Repeating your ultimate word!
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


THE STORY OF ORPHEUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis said the music of the thracian bard
Last Line: And changed the savage to the citizen
Subject(s): Life;mythology - Classical;orpheus


THE STORY OF PHOEBUS [OR APOLLO] AND DAPHNE APPLIED, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train
Last Line: He catched at love, and filled his arms with bays.
Subject(s): Apollo; Daphne (mythology); Mythology; Mythology - Classical


THE STUDENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As by salamanca's city
Last Line: Travelled with me, ever near.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students


THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and
Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.]
Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology


THE SUNFLOWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah sun-flower! Weary of time
Last Line: Where my sun-flower wishes to go.
Variant Title(s): Ah Sunflower
Subject(s): Bible; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Sunflowers


THE SUNSHINE OF THE GODS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall sunder the fetters
Last Line: The hour of perfect song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers


THE SWAN; TO VICTOR HUGO, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Andromache, I think of you! - this small river
Last Line: Of captives, of the conquered! . . . Of many others more!
Subject(s): Birds; Mythology - Classical; Swans


THE SWORD AND THE SICKLE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sword sung on the barren heath
Last Line: But could not make the sickle yield
Variant Title(s): "the Sword Sung On The Barren Heath"";
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Peace


THE SYMBOLS, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sign work of the orient it runneth up and down
Last Line: Since direction counts as nothing when the gods set up a sign.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Signs & Signboards


THE TEACHING OF THE NUDE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A satyr spied a goddess in her bath
Last Line: His hoof kicked up the clothing for such charms.
Subject(s): Lust; Mythology; Nudity; Nakedness


THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, by SOAME JENYNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her own isle's remotest grove
Last Line: And steer by chloe's eyes.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Temples; Venus (goddess); Mosques


THE TEST OF MANHOOD, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks
Last Line: Resplendent springs, to faith refreshed compels.
Subject(s): Evolution; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Trials


THE THUNDER GODS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: To-day the thunder gods strike on their anvils in heaven
Last Line: And her soul belong to her love; not to her lovers.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Virginity; Women; Vestals


THE TIGER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright / in the forests of the night
Last Line: Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Variant Title(s): The Beauty Of Terror;the Tyger
Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Creation; God; Mythology; Terror; Tigers


THE TOAST OF MARS, by MARY E. OAKES    Poem Text                    
First Line: My ghastly cry I raise on high
Last Line: I give you the toast of mars!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soldiers; World War I; First World War


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: LOKI'S INSULTING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bard in unforgotten verse has told
Last Line: Their guileful trapper in a foaming pool.
Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Loki (norse God); Mythology - Norse; Odin (norse God)


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: MIMIR'S WELL, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then heimdal, the white god, in darkness rose
Last Line: Darkling rode back to his benighted heaven.
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: NAGELFARI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blinded he sped, the stars around him thrown
Last Line: The embattled host of heaven expectant held.
Subject(s): Bridges; Horseback Riding; Mythology - Norse; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE BINDING OF LOKI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So loki was brought low, and lay, firm bound
Last Line: The gods stole silent, too distraught to feast.
Subject(s): Loki (norse God); Mythology - Norse


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE FIMBUL WINTER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods in their remorse and their decline
Last Line: Awaiting the live things that are his meal!
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE LAST BATTLE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud with a terrible clamour once again
Last Line: Over that anguish flowed the unquiet sea.
Subject(s): Fights; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Odin (norse God); Thor (norse God Of Thunder)


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BIRTH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As to a watcher on a pier at night
Last Line: A deeper gloaming and I slept in night.'
Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Goddesses & Gods; Hodur (norse God); Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature; Sea; Ocean


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BUILDING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then searching in the long grass at their feet
Last Line: Upon the story of earth's destinies!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RIDING OF THE GODS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gladly would I my pen at once concede
Last Line: While that the immortals drew unto their doom!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse


THE TRANSIT OF THE GODS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange that the self's continuum should outlast
Last Line: To dance my dust at last into the tomb.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TRITON OF THE MINNOWS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why don't you strike out something new?
Last Line: "the triton of the minnows."
Subject(s): Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Time; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Optimism


THE TRYST AFTER DEATH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hush, woman, do not speak to me!"
Last Line: "my speech, my shape are spectral - hush, woman, do not speak to me!"
Subject(s): Mythology - Irish


THE TWILIGHT OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The wonder of the world is o'er
Last Line: Dominion and ancestral sway.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Mythology - Celtic; Past; World


THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a long sad row the old gods come
Last Line: Lie scattered in the sand!
Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Mythology; Wind; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TWO MASKS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Melpomene among her livid people
Last Line: She bows: she waves them for the loftier lyre.
Subject(s): Muses; Mythology; Tragedy


THE UNFORGIVEN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near my bed, there, hangs the picture jewels could
Last Line: Playing on a lute of amber, by the margin of a sea.
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


THE VESTAL'S DREAM, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, venus, white-limbed mother of delight
Last Line: And lights with silver torch the fallen fire.
Subject(s): Innocence; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE VITAL CHOICE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or shall we run with artemis
Last Line: Shun or too devoutly follow.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Youth


THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Youth of delight! Come hither
Last Line: And wish to lead others, when they should be led.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THE VOYAGE OF JASON, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Argo, great winged ship, shaped for adventurous quest, when fifty
Last Line: Gold, assaulting heaven's vault rose, and soared toward the unknown.
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Goddesses & Gods; Jason; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


THE VOYAGE OF TELEGONUS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ill fares it with the man whose lips are set
Last Line: With fastened mouth. For who may brave the gods?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have grown weary of the open sea
Last Line: A little hour of peace, a little sun!
Subject(s): Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; Storms; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean


THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a lonely stream afar in a lone dim land
Last Line: Along that silent strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brooks; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Redemption; Silence; Sin; Water; Streams; Creeks


THE WASHER WOMAN'S SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I washed them out & washed them in'
Last Line: And they told me it was a great sin
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THE WEDDING, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon, tithonus, withered by his singing
Last Line: Woke from the nap, forgetting him; and ate him.
Subject(s): Insects; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Spiders; Bugs


THE WEDGE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there were two of us
Last Line: Will only bruise.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WHITE GODDESS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All saints revile her, and all sober men
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


THE WILD FLOWER'S SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I wanderd the forest
Last Line: But I met with scorn
Variant Title(s): "as I Wandered"";
Subject(s): Bible; Disappointment; Flowers; Mythology


THE WINGLESS VICTORY, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR.    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Nike of samothrace
Last Line: Into stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Victory; War; Optimism


THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter these enchanted woods
Last Line: You who dare.
Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


THE WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east
Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Odysseus


THE WRITER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the shade of the pyramids
Last Line: Fled away like a flame.
Subject(s): Mythology; Pyramids; Troy; Writing & Writers


THE ZONE OF VENUS, by ANTIPHANES    Poem Text                    
First Line: When venus loosed the cestus of desire
Last Line: But thou hast used-it against me alone!
Subject(s): Desire; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THEBAID: BOOK 1, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fraternal rage the guilty thebes alarms
Last Line: Who grasps the strugling heifer's lunar horns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Statius
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


THEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In gold sandals
Last Line: Dawn like a thief %fell upon me
Variant Title(s): In Gold Sandal
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night


THEN I SAID TO THE ELEGANT LADIES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now that you are leaving the city, %love's shapr pain encircles my heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEN LOVE SHOOK MY HEART LIKE THE WIND THAT FALLS ON, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oaks in the mountains
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEOGONY: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, by HESIOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden-haired bacchus did espouse
Last Line: Nor death nor age could find her when they sought her.
Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


THERE A BOWL OF AMBROSIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For everything good for the groom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE A BOWL OF AMBROSIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And made libations, praying all good things %for the groom
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE ARE NONE LIKE HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With an intelligence like hers
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (A), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man has no notion of moral fitness but from education
Last Line: Organs of sense, must be limited to objects of sense.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (B), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception
Last Line: Is
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists


THERE OUGHT NOT TO BE / THRENODIES IN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be fitting for us
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE'S A MAN, I REALLY BELIEVE, COMPARES WITH., by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Well, endure is all I can do, reduced to...
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THERE'S SOMETHING I WANT TO SAY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In shame; you'd state your claim
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THESE ARE THE ASHES OF TIMAS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To lay on the grave
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THESE ARE TIMAS'S ASHES: ON THE THRESHOLD OF HER MARRIAGE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the long locks of their lovely hair and laid them on this grave
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THESE PLEASURES NOW, MY CONSTANT GIRLS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I shall sing in splendid songs
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THESEUS AND ARIADNE, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis enough, my wench
Last Line: Make all a desolation.
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece; Theseus


THESEUS AND ARIADNE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High on his figured couch beyond the waves
Last Line: Playing the queen to nobler company
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Theseus


THESEUS AND ARIADNE, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, I have loved thee!
Last Line: Ye gods! He leaves me and my babe to be!
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Theseus


THETIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He had asked for immortal life
Last Line: A river's blue.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sea; Ocean


THEY GAVE ME HONOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The gift of their skill
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEY HAVE HONORED ME WITH THE GIFT OF, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their works
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THEY SAY THIS MYSTERY SHALL NEVER CEASE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; War


THEY WORE RED YARN TO BIND THEIR HAIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: These memories. Know that our name is gone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THIS DUST WAS TIMAS'; ERE HER BRIDAL HOUR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Cut with sharp steel their locks, the strewments for the dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THIS HISTORY OF HIS BODY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul absents itself into a stranger's
Last Line: So long, the youth of trees concealed
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


THIS IS THE DUST OF TIMIAS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their lovely hair with bright sharp bronze
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THOR'S FISHING, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy sky and heavy sea, / running cloud and wind-blown crests
Last Line: So was lost the midgard snake.
Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Monsters; Mythology; Snakes; Anglers; Serpents; Vipers


THOSE DISCORDS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will reach the sky
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THOSE WHO COME AFTER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will never say of us: / what wonderful myths they had
Last Line: Endlessly nibbled and gnawed
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Explorers; Greece; Mythology; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Greeks


THOUGH IT ISN'T EASY FOR US TO RIVAL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Goddesses in the loveliness of their figures
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THOUGH YOU ARE MY LOVER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I could not bear to be the older
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THOUGHTS AT THE TRYSTING STILE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, may, and hang a white flag on each thorn
Last Line: Like wind-looped flowers.
Subject(s): Laughter; May (month); Psyche (mythology)


THOUSANDS: ACTAEON, by LAIRD HUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Actaeon, in retelling it, told it otherwise. He maintained that artemis had in
Last Line: A blind stag run through those woods?
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Artemis; Mythology - Classical


THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 2, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your consent I made bold to suppose, in my last
Last Line: If it will not make sense in their own mother tongue.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Apollo; Dogs; Mythology - Classical; Wilderness; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


THREE LETTERS TO ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I set that man above the gods and heroes
Last Line: The time is gone %I lie alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THREE RIDDLES FROM SYMPHOSIUS, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My death is life; when born, I am unmade
Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Riddles; Mythology


THREE WORLDS, THREE REALMS, SIX ROADS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear phone poles hum
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THREE WORLDS, THREE REALMS, SIX ROADS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear phone poles hum
Last Line: Going home
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


THRONED IN SPLENDOUR, DEATHLESS, O APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Accomplish all those things my heart desires to be done; appear %and stand at my shoulder
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THROWS PEACE INTO TURMOIL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For day is near
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


THUS SANG ORPHEUS TO HIS STRINGS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THY MAKER IS NEAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


THYESTES, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who drags me my place among the shades
Last Line: I give thee over for thy punishment.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


TIL ANAKTORIA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maik o the gods he seems to me
Last Line: Greener nor gerss, in sic a dwalm %I kenna wha I am
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations


TIRESIAS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an hour before the hour of dawn
Last Line: Are these dead or art thou dead, italy?
Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Grief; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians


TIRIEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And aged tiriel stood before the gates of his beautiful palace
Last Line: He ceast outstretchd at har & hevas feet in awful death
Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Mythology; Tyranny & Tyrants; Madness; Mental Illness; Dictators


TIRZAH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou poor human form!' said she. 'o thou poor child of woe!'
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TITANS IN CHAOS, by JOHN P. C. MCCARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: No equal hath each small eon
Last Line: Slowly enchroach these fates.
Subject(s): Titans (mythology)


TITHONUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall
Last Line: And thee returning on thy silver wheels.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Immortality; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO --, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange was the doom of heracles, whose shade
Last Line: He stirs the wheat with the steerage of his wings
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


TO A BRIDE, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest beyond earth's bliss, with heaven I deem him
Last Line: Almost as dead.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO A BRIDE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest like the gods he seems to me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When peleus wedded on thessalia's plain
Last Line: Grow impotent and rotten in a stew.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Pleasure; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on
Subject(s): Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (1926-2009); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism


TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on
Last Line: See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down %while his sensible daddy goes straight into town
Subject(s): God; Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Religion; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (b. 1926); Women's Rights


TO A GENTILWOMAN, by O. R.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some women fayne that paris was
Last Line: Then men forsooth must bear the blame.
Subject(s): Fidelity; Helen Of Troy; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Paris (mythology); Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations


TO A GREEK GIRL ON THE SEASHORE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no heathen gods to play the rogue
Last Line: Upholds thy virgin footsteps everywhere.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


TO A LADY WHO LAUGHED AT POETRY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have no time for poetry
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO A RICH UNCULTURED WOMAN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead you shall lie, for ever, a name that none recall
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO A ROSE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou new-born rose, emerging from the dew
Last Line: Love to mankind, and confidence in god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Flowers; Love; Mankind; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Human Race


TO A SONG OF SAPPHO, DISCOVERED IN EGYPT, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jonah wept within the whale
Last Line: As gods are wont to do.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jonah (bible); Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.)


TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: From public noise and factious strife
Last Line: Love is a jest, and vows are wind.
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth; Paradise


TO A YOUNG POET, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Go, like hippolytus, to win thee bays
Last Line: With all her sullen, unrelenting waves.
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Poetry & Poets


TO A.H., by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I just had turned the classic page
Last Line: The story of thy matchless worth.
Subject(s): Muses; Mythology - Classical


TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you desiring good and fair
Last Line: But you had pled your plea outright
Subject(s): Alcaeus (6th-7th Century B.c.); Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights


TO AN UNCULTIVATED WOMAN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever dead shalt thou lie under the earth; none shall remember thee
Last Line: Wand'ring, flitting amidst shades without fame, unhonoured there as here
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO ANDROMEDA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That country girl has witched your wishes
Last Line: And she hasn't got the sense %to hitch her rags above her ankles
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal on thy many-splendoured throne
Last Line: Be thou to me.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aphrodite, daughter of zeus, undying
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aphrodite, child of zeus
Last Line: Let my soul stay untouched. %keep my spirit yours, uncrushed
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO APHRODITE: 2, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the while %I prayed
Last Line: Our night would last %twice as long
Variant Title(s): All The While, Believe Me, I Praye
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO APOLLO, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou mighty lord and master of the lyre
Last Line: That I may play, and sing a hymne to love.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


TO APOLLO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Luminous master of song and sunbeams
Last Line: Harlots and publicans enter in.
Subject(s): Apollo; Flowers; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Soul


TO APOLLO; A SHORT HYMNE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus! When that I a verse
Last Line: Swans devoted unto thee.
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical


TO ATTHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved you, atthis, once, long, long ago
Last Line: You seemed to me a small, ungainly child.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Love - Age Differences; Mythology - Classical


TO ATTHIS', by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atthis, far from me and dear mnasidika
Last Line: I yearn to behold thy delicate soul %to satiate my desire
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO AUTUMN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O autumn laden with fruit, and stained
Last Line: Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.
Subject(s): Autumn; Bible; Mythology; Seasons; Fall


TO BACCHUS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I'm none of those -- oh bacchus, blush!
Last Line: And I'm well fed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical


TO BLISS CARMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is the morning's poet--
Last Line: The dawning's troubadour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Morning; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean


TO CHROMIS, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, young chromis, I love thee, and I am lovely
Last Line: "and gazing, they whisper together, ""what beauty divine!"
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


TO CYPRIAN APHRODITE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summit of the %mountain descending
Last Line: Nectar with the gladness of our festivities %and greet this libation
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO DELIA: 18, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Restore thy treasure [or, tresses] to the golden ore
Last Line: So shalt thou cease to plague, and I to pain.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


TO DELIA: 39, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Read in my face a volume of despairs
Last Line: The temple where her name was honored still.
Subject(s): Despair; Helen Of Troy; Love; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Similes


TO DELIA: 5, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst youth and error led my wandring minde
Last Line: Are made by her to murder thus their lord.
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Love; Mythology - Classical


TO DIE IS ALL I REALLY WANT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No meadow ......... Dance %.............. And murmurings %...............
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO DIE IS EVIL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Else they would die
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO E.O.S., by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When issuing from the realms of 'shadow land'
Last Line: Are with the breath of morning fragrance fraught.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Morning; Mythology; Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (1806-1893); Soul


TO ECHO, by ANNA MARIA JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw her in the fleeting wind
Last Line: The nymph, wild echo, sweeps the hallow range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


TO ENGLISH CONNOISSEURS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You must agree that rubens was a fool
Last Line: And not a brewers servant my good sir
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Critics & Criticism; Mythology; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


TO F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You call me mad tis folly to do so
Last Line: If you do not you are but what you was
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Insanity; Mythology; Madness; Mental Illness


TO FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I mock thee not, tho' I by thee am mocked
Last Line: Thou call'st me madman, but I call thee blockhead.
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology


TO GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you have formed a circle to go into
Last Line: Go into it yourself & see how you would do
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO GYRINNO, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO H----, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ake
Last Line: Do be my enemy for friendships sake
Subject(s): Bible; Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Mythology


TO HELEN (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen, thy beauty is to me
Last Line: Are holy land!
Variant Title(s): To Helen
Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


TO HELEN, MIDDLE-AGED, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The strife on illium's windy plain is still!
Last Line: Time leaves to helen who outlive their troys!
Subject(s): Aging; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


TO HELEN, ON HER - TH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bounteous gods at helen's birth
Last Line: Time never has come near her.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


TO HIS VALET, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want three days to read the iliad through!
Last Line: His heaven, shut fast the door! Don't let him in!
Subject(s): Books; Goddesses & Gods; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey


TO HUNT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You think fuseli is not a great painter. I'm glad
Last Line: This is one of the best compliments he ever had
Subject(s): Bible; Fuseli, Henry (1741-1825); Mythology


TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is one story and one story only
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun


TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is one story and one story only
Last Line: But nothing promised that is not performed
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun


TO KO UNG, THE GODDESS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My fortune has been great, I grant
Last Line: And keep an eye upon my bank account.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Money; Mythology


TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go close to death %[but must suffer all, being poor]
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And feel my mind slip as I %go close to death
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion


TO ME THE MUSES TRULY GAVE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So let me now get used to life and death %I cannot, shall not be forgot
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Life Change Events; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO MEMORY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Memory, hither come
Last Line: With silent melancholy.
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Bible; Melancholy; Memory; Mythology; Rivers; Dejection


TO MONTACUTE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou at memory's holiest shrine caressed
Last Line: Is to the heart that loves already given.
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Dreams; Love; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares


TO MORNING, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O holy virgin! Clad in purest white
Last Line: Thy buskin'd feet, appear upon our hills.
Subject(s): Bible; Morning; Mythology


TO MR. HOWARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear howard, from the soft assaults of love
Last Line: Given thee the world, though I withheld the fair.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Poetry & Poets


TO MRS. ANN FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little flower grew in a lonely vale
Last Line: Tis your own fault if you dont flourish now
Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology


TO MRS. BUTTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wife of the friend of those I most revere
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO MRS. HENRY T-GHE, ON READING HER 'PSYCHE', by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me the witching tale again
Last Line: As nectar keeps her soul in heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MRS. ANNA FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This song to the flower of flaxman's joy
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO MY DEAREST FRIEND, JOHN FLAXMAN, THESE LINES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bless thee, o father of heaven and earth! That ever I saw flaxman's face
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO MY MYRTLE [MIRTLE], by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To a lovely myrtle bound
Last Line: O my lovely myrtle tree
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Trees


TO NANCY F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I help thy husband's copying me
Last Line: Should that make difference twixt me & thee
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology


TO NOBODADDY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why art thou silent and invisible
Last Line: Gains females loud applause
Subject(s): Bible; Jealousy; Mythology


TO PAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "twy-horn pan, the ridgy hills"
Last Line: Of thine ever-springing fount
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical;pan (mythology)


TO PAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "pan, who hast to thy command"
Last Line: Ay a merry heart and measure
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical;pan (mythology)


TO PELE (GODDESS OF KILAUEA VOLCANO), by ANNE MOTT-SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break this spell of brittle hardness
Last Line: Oh, pele -- live again!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Volcanoes


TO PHOIBOS THE GOLDENHAIRED WHOM KOIOS' DAUGHTER BORE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And eros never approaches her
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO S-----D (1), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To s----- in childhood on the nursery floor
Last Line: He is extreme old & extreme poor still
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834)


TO S-----D (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You all your youth observed the golden rule
Last Line: Mine is the flesh the bones may be your share
Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


TO SCIENCE; SONNET, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Science! True daughter of old time thou art!
Last Line: The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
Variant Title(s): Sonnet - To Science;to Science
Subject(s): Hate; Mythology; Social Protest


TO SPRING, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
Last Line: Whose modest tresses are bound up for thee.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Spring


TO SUMMER, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou who passest through our valleys in
Last Line: Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Summer


TO THE CHRISTIANS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO THE DEISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He can never be a friend to the human race who is the preacher
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO THE DISCUS THROWER, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shimmering fabrics, broidered with bright threads
Last Line: Wrapped in your cloak of stainless nudity!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Track Athletics; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles


TO THE DUKE DE NOAILLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vain the concern which you express
Last Line: But to secure our rest?
Variant Title(s): An Epigram
Subject(s): Advice; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


TO THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening
Last Line: Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence.
Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Evening Star; Imagination; Mythology; Stars; Vision; Sunset; Twilight; Fancy


TO THE MUSES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether on ida's shady brow / or in the chambers of the east
Last Line: The sound is forced, the notes are few!
Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy


TO THE NEW GODS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You, who now wield by earthly right
Last Line: The deepest of the human hells.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


TO THE PUBLIC, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After my three years' slumber on the banks of the ocean
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE DODINGTON, ESQ., by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As late I rov'd by lodon's whispering stream
Last Line: "when on that theme my young and thomson fail?'"
Subject(s): Apollo; Bubb Dodington, George. Baron Melcombe; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity


TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strange erratum in all the editions
Last Line: In all that he has writ
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain


TO THE SOUTHERN CROSS AS IT DISAPPEARS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lantern, antipode strung from a foreign
Last Line: Whose first star is the last star that I see
Subject(s): Death; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Southern Cross; Stars


TO THE URANIAN APHRODITE, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My days pass wreathed in dreams while time's dim room
Last Line: Hope's rainbow gleamed through foam of troubled seas.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Fate; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical; Time; Destiny


TO THE WINE-GOD MERLUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Ho! Thou jolly god, with kinked
Last Line: And roll me o'er thy tongue eternally.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soul; Wine


TO THE WOODSMAN OF GASTINE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, woodsman, stay thy hand awhile, and hark
Last Line: Matter abides forever, form is lost.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nymphs; Woods


TO THOMAS BUTTS (1), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Why was I born with a different face?
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO THOMAS BUTTS (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To my friend butts I write
Last Line: Such the vision to me %appear'd on the sea
Variant Title(s): To My Friend Butts I Write; To My Friend Butt
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO THOMAS BUTTS (3), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With happiness stretch'd across the hills
Last Line: And twofold always. May god us keep %from single vision & newton's sleep
Variant Title(s): With Happiness Stretch'd Across The Hill
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TO TIRZAH, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Last Line: Then what have I to do with thee?
Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology


TO VENETIAN ARTISTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That god is colouring newton does shew
Last Line: Those who taste colouring love it more & more
Subject(s): Bible; Colors; Mythology; Paintings & Painters


TO VENUS, by JUAN RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of figure very graceful, with amorous look, correct
Last Line: Are taken under the green wave; then why shouldst thou despair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


TO WHAT SHALL I BEST LIKEN YOU, DEAR BRIDEGROOM?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Most of all to a slender sapling I liken you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO WHAT, DEAR BRIDEGROOM, SHALL I COMPARE YOU?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To a tender sapling I can best compare you
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO WHOSE EYES?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TO WINTER, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O winter! Bar thine adamantine doors
Last Line: Is driv'n yelling to his caves beneath mount hecla.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Winter


TOMB OF ORPHEUS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My limbs were scattered
Last Line: She was the fern
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Graves; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


TONIGHT I'VE WATCHED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In bed alone
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude


TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of that girl gorgo
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold december nights I'd go
Last Line: Each healing we begin.
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism


TOWARD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the arrows
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TOWARD YOU BEAUTIFUL GIRLS MY THOUGHTS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never alter
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ANDROMETA, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now over the mediterranean shore, fronting the sun
Last Line: Dragon guards its prey.
Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology); Civilization; Democracy; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemidorus, farewell
Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell."
Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AS THE GREEKS DREAMED, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the loose hot sands at foot of the cliffs
Last Line: With nature may either know or understand the other.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand years are nothing
Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness.
Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore


TOWN AND HARBOR OF ITHACA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By another light surrounded
Last Line: Where ulysses was the king.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


TRAGEDY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This, of all fates, would be the saddest end
Last Line: To every baseness of the foe he fought.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Celtic; Slavery; Work; Workers; Serfs


TRANSFORMATIONS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: What miracle was it that made this grey
Last Line: O'er the dark churches where the blind mislead the blind.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Change; Mythology - Classical


TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 2. TO THERON OF AGRAGAS, VICTOR IN THE CHARIOT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O song! Whose voice the harp obeys
Last Line: Go -- reckon up the sand! --
Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Victory


TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 6. TO AGESIAS OF SYRACUSE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who seeks a goodly bower to raise
Last Line: No meaner theme assign of poesy!
Subject(s): Fights; Goddesses & Gods; Labor & Laborers; Mythology; Work; Workers


TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: THE FIRST OLYMPIC ODE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can earth, or fire, or liquid air
Last Line: Myself the chief of grecian minstrelsy. --
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


TRAVELING THE MAP, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The map shows me my attempted life
Last Line: Of escape %the shimmer of sky at dusk
Subject(s): Atlantis; Geography; Maps; Mythology - Classical; Travel


TRENCH FOR WATERING THE GARDEN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TROJAN WOMEN / EURIPIDES, SELS., by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are gods?
Last Line: In which the living love their own beautiful faces
Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Mythology - Classical


TROY TOWN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavenborn helen, sparta's queen
Last Line: Tall troy's on fire!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy


TRULY I WISH I WERE DEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You quenched your desire %for tender
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 10, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a siren in the middle sea
Last Line: Since all the world is savage wildernesses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); Tuscany, Italy


TWILIGHT BY THE CABIN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk, a pearl-grey river, o'er
Last Line: He will follow to the stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Evening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Sunset; Twilight


TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many suns have died at the low pool's brow
Last Line: Happy to watch themselves there as they die!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


TWO EPIGRAMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


TWO KINDS OF RICHES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since all the riches of this world
Last Line: If I thanked my god for worldly things
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Property; Possessions


TWO SONNETS: 1, by DAVID P. BERENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Antigone and helen - would they laugh
Last Line: To tolerate such frolics in the shade!
Subject(s): Mythology


TWO SONNETS: 2, by DAVID P. BERENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Or is it all illusion? Do the years
Last Line: For me, my vision of the long ago!
Subject(s): Advertising; Mythology


TWO TOWNS, by RALPH LINTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a mighty city
Last Line: Your fate is in their hands.
Subject(s): Crete; Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Troy; Ulysses; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus


UGLY SWAN, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: As you know, my feathers whitened
Last Line: So what's the difference?
Subject(s): Birds; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Swans; Zeus


ULYSSES, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ulysses was a rover, a roamer and a rover
Last Line: The way that old ulysses used to do.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


ULYSSES, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye, within one fire remaining two
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ULYSSES, by GODFREY ELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not yet is all my passion dead
Last Line: The old pain and the old surmise.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Oxford University; Ulysses; Odysseus


ULYSSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the much-tossed ulysses, never done
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


ULYSSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the much-tossed ulysses, never done
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ULYSSES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Settled to evenings before the doorway
Last Line: "go ask your mother penelope."
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


ULYSSES, by JEANNE MCGAHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the sea where only the tailed and chilly
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ULYSSES, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father, whose oath in hollow hell is heard
Last Line: Curtain
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Ulysses; Odysseus


ULYSSES, by UMBERTO SABA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was growing up, I used to sail
Last Line: And by the aching desire for life
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Landscape; Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Ulysses


ULYSSES, by UMBERTO SABA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sailed, in the days of my youth
Last Line: And a sorrowful love for all life
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ULYSSES, by UMBERTO SABA    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sad ulysses in decline, seer
Last Line: Pale dreamer of shipwrecks, %who loves you?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It little profits that, an idle king
Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest
Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


ULYSSES AND ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But as for thee
Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ULYSSES AND THE SIREN, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, worthy greek, ulysses, come
Last Line: T' undo, or be undone.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus


ULYSSES AND THE SIREN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She spake; the morning on her golden throne
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses


ULYSSES AND THE SIRENS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetch'd
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ulysses


ULYSSES BUILDS HIS BED, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Glorious ulysses, returned from the war
Last Line: And the enraptured mothers smile.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Statues; Stones; Ulysses; Walls; Granite; Rocks; Odysseus


ULYSSES EMBROIDERED, by MIRIAM DWORKIN WADDINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've come %at last from
Last Line: She made many %journeys
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology)


ULYSSES IN THE WAVES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This said; he (begging) gather'd clouds
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ULYSSES RECOGNIZED BY HIS DOG ARGUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now to the gate as near ulysses drew
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


ULYSSES RETURNS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ulysses has come back to me again
Last Line: He never tells -- but penelope knows!
Subject(s): Homecoming; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


ULYSSES, SELECTION, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


ULYSSES, SELS., by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing
Last Line: Done. %begin
Subject(s): Sirens (mythology)


UNDER A TREE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We know those tales of gods in hot pursuit
Subject(s): Mythology; Love


UNDER THE HILLS NEAR THE MORAVA RIVER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lay there midst
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


UNDER THE HILLS NEAR THE MORAVA RIVER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lay there midst
Last Line: Bones of two men lying by her, %one each side
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


UNDINE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Undine by the lonely shore
Last Line: The dead amidst the living!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; Nymphs


UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife
Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom


UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife
Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom


UNIVERSAL FAMILY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our wars are wars of life, and wounds of love
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


UNTIL ALL OF YOU ARE WILLING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


UPON FAUNUS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We read how faunus, he the shepheards god
Last Line: But had it been of birch, the death's the same.
Subject(s): Faunus (mythology)


URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FIRST CANTO, OR NEW MOON, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How apt the slanderous and unciuill tongues
Last Line: Favour, a while, thy tender sarcells too.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex Role


URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FOURTH CANTO, OR LAST QUARTER, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moone's bright throne by mulciber was built
Last Line: Declare her best effects to be in you.
Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Planets; Women; Zodiac


URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE SECOND CANTO, OR FIRST QUARTER, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of the world how simply wonder wee
Last Line: When her quills settle, thine againe shall rise.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sex Role


URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE THIRD CANTO, OR FULL MOON, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How great and comprehendles is the minde
Last Line: The session broke and the whole senat' rose.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women


VALA, OR THE FOUR ZOAS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


VALHALLA INN, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere in valhalla is a double swinging door
Last Line: And trade the purple barroom tales that men tell other men!
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Odysseus


VALKYRIUR SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea-king woke from the troubled sleep
Last Line: Lay cold on a pile of dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse


VAMPIRES, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nevertheless, I've been asked to write about vampires
Last Line: And for snow: a song, like every song, for the dead
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


VENUS AND ADONIS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as the sun with purple-colored face
Last Line: Means to immure herself and not be seen.
Subject(s): Adonis; Animals; Birds; Horses; Larks; Mythology - Classical; Skylarks


VENUS IN A GARDEN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas at early morning
Last Line: Gathered from the roses red.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Roses


VENUS IN ARDEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now love, her mantle thrown
Last Line: With youth whose days three thousand years are done.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rivers; Venus (goddess); English


VENUS MISTAKEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When cloe's picture was to venus shown
Last Line: Friend howard's genius fancied all the rest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess); Eros


VENUS TRANSIENS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me / was venus more beautiful
Last Line: The sands at my feet.
Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


VENUS VERTICORDIA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She hath the apple in her hand for thee
Last Line: And through her dark grove strike the light of troy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Variant Title(s): Venus (for A Picture)
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess)


VENUS'S ADVICE TO THE MUSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus to the muses spoke the cyprian dame
Last Line: But, when he finds us studying hard, he flies.'
Subject(s): Muses; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Venus (goddess)


VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I marked where lovely venus and her court
Last Line: His toil, and laught and hoped and was content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


VENUS, I DON'T NEED YOU, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's face it, venus
Last Line: And virtually no one is interested in your notion of voluptuous
Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sex; Venus (goddess)


VERSES ON THE SPRINGS AT BATH, by ? GROVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When bladud once espied some hogs
Last Line: The hogs thus banished by their prince, %have liv'd in bristol ever since
Subject(s): Bath, England; Mythology; Pigs; Springs (water)


VICARIOUS ATONEMENT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an old and very cruel god
Last Line: This bitter cup from us.
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Military; Mythology; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


VIGIL OF VENUS, SELS., by PERVIGILIUM VENERIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let those love now, who never loved before
Last Line: And as he breathes, her glowing fires arise
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


VILLANELLE OF THE LIVING PAN, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan is not dead, but sleeping in the brake
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


VINES TRELLISED ON POLES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


VIOLET BREASTED DAUGHTER OF KRONOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 5, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another, whose more heauy hearted saint
Last Line: That waiteth for the wandring ghosts retire.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Muses; Tears


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 7. THE IMPECUNEOUS FOP, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seest thou how gayly my young maister goes
Last Line: Vntill the mawes wide mouth be stopt with store.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Nature


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 6: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Labeo reserves a long nayle for the nonce
Last Line: Who would not but wed poets now a daies!
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Poetry & Poets


VIRGINITY, VIRGINITY, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE AND LEFT ME?', by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never again will I come to you, never again.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


VISION, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go so that %we can see
Last Line: Which is %our fate
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


VISION OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the fourfold man; the humanity in deadly sleep
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


VISION OF JERUSALEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see thy form. O lovely, mild jerusalem! Wing'd with six wings
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


VISION OF JOSEPH AND MARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold! In the visions of elohim jehovah, behold joseph and mary!
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


VISION OF THE THREE DAUGHTERS, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved theotormon
Last Line: The daughters of albion hear her woes, & eccho back her sighs.
Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Love; Mythology; Vision; Fancy


VOICE OF THE DEVIL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


WALK ON THE WATER, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chafed ocean, a chadored moon
Last Line: Song without skin to hold.
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Healing; Mythology - Classical; Peace; Sea; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Ocean; Illness; Feminism


WALKING THE NEW YORK BEDROCK ALIVE IN THE SEA OF INFORMATION, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maple, oak, poplar, gingko
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


WALKING THE NEW YORK BEDROCK ALIVE IN THE SEA OF INFORMATION, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maple, oak, poplar, gingko
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


WANT MATCHES?, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


WAR SUITE: 1, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wars: we're drawn to them
Last Line: With the blood still red and wet on them.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Mythology; War; Dead, The


WAR-SONGS: 2, by TYRTAEUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet are ye hercules' unconquered race
Last Line: (placed nigh your panoply,) to mar the foe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tyrtaios
Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical


WARNED HIS SONG... (DEATH OF ORPHEUS), by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Warned his song could tame
Last Line: And threw it in the river %but it would not sink
Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WARRIOR AND THE DAUGHTER OF ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look! The beautiful daughter of albion sits naked upon the stone
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


WATER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The water-venus in dissolving beauty
Last Line: From living waters into birth.
Subject(s): Beauty; Mythology - Classical; Sea; Venus (goddess); Ocean


WE SHALL GIVE, FATHER SAID, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WE WASH OUR BOWLS IN THIS WATER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A day on the ragged north pacific coast get soaked by whipping
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


WE WASH OUR BOWLS IN THIS WATER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A day on the ragged north pacific coast get soaked by whipping
Last Line: Can't throw some light on the nature of ridges and rivers, %who can?'
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


WE WILL GIVE HER, HER FATHER SAYS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WE'VE COME, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm now, curled away / from each other, backs
Last Line: Joined at the base of the spine
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WE'VE COME, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm now, curled away %from each other, backs
Last Line: Joined at the base of the spine
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WEAKER THAN WATER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WEALTH WITHOUT EXCELLENCE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The best of blessedness
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WEALTH WITHOUT MORAL SPLENDOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: There is no higher fortune
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WEALTH WITHOUT VIRTUE IS NO HARMLESS NEIGHBOR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WEDDING SONG: 1, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maidenhood, o maidenhood
Last Line: Never again back to thee.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Wedding Song; Epithalamium


WEDDING SONG: 2, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bridegroom dear, to what shall I compare thee?
Last Line: To a slim green rod best do I compare thee.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Slenderness; Wedding Song; Thinness; Epithalamium


WENDY IN THE '90S, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time she would know better
Last Line: Pleasure-the telling %of the journey out alone
Subject(s): Flight; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Romance; Travel


WET HANDKERCHIEF, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHAT COUNTRY GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: How to make a dress %come down to her feet?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE GODS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full often I have heard it said
Last Line: Repeat their old olympic labors.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


WHAT NAME, ACHILLES?, by VICTOR HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Achilles with a girl's name? In a smock?
Last Line: Until the grecians dragged him off to troy
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pools; Ponds


WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees
Last Line: That beautiful and beauty-blinded face
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


WHEN ANGER SPREADS INSIDE YOU BREAST, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Keep watch against an idly barking tongue
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN DEATH HAS LAID YOU DOWN AMONG HIS OWN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Reticent still, with the blind dead, unknown
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN FLORA HAD ADORNED THE FIRTH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When flora had ourfret the firth
Last Line: "thus ever of greece did fair helene, / whom I luv I dar nocht assay"
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy;mythology - Classical;spring


WHEN FRANCE GOT FREE, EUROPE, 'TWIXT FOOLS AND KNAVES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


WHEN FURY RAGES IN THE BREAST, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Watch that reiterating tongue
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN HELEN LIVED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have cried in our despair / that men desert
Last Line: A word and a jest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


WHEN I WAS ALIVE ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was alive--only glimpses
Last Line: Of my skin and stepped out?
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Soul


WHEN NIGHTLONG SLUMBER CLOSES THEIR EYES, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN PSYCHE, WHO IS LIFE, DESCENDS AMONG THE SHADES, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lozenge of copper to the master of the ferry
Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
Subject(s): Psyche (mythology)


WHEN SHE, THE ROUND MOON, ROSE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: They stood in a ring around her altar
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN SONGS FROM THE HEART, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN THE BRIGHT GOD OF DAY, by WILLIAM MONLAS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: If you rashly approach near the sound.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


WHEN THE PIGEONS' SPIRITS GROW COLD THEY LET THEIR, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wings droop at their sides
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHEN YOU LIE ON A SLAB STRETCHED OUT DEAD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Even in the corridors of underwood light no %one will notice you strut among the bloodless dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHERE DO THE BUTLER'S BIG FEET GO?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Besplendor those important feet
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHERE ILIUM WAS PROUD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the sands where ilium was proud
Last Line: Only a deathless tale in poets' mouths.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Iliad; Odyssey; Self-esteem; Self-respect


WHERE IT PASSES, UNTOUCHABLE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow of my unfinished days, left undone
Last Line: Was fog peeled from an august ocean
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


WHETHER CYPRUS KEEPS YOU OR PAPHOS OR PANORMOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHETHER YOU ARE AT KYPROS AND PAPHOS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or at panormos
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHICH ARE BAUTIES SWEETEST DRESS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: These are beauties sweetest dress
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


WHILE THEY KEPT WATCH AROUND HER, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lords of the town
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHITE GODDESS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All saints revile her, and all sober men
Last Line: Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


WHITER BY FAR THAN AN EGG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHITER THAN MILK, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHO IS THIS WILD GIRL WITH THE CHARM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So that the hem is at the ankle
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHO OWNS THE NIGHT AND LEASES STARS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to be touched, so I went walking
Last Line: I went out walking, waiting to be touched
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


WHY, AFTER SO LONG, SHOULD I DREAM, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of those girlish days?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WHY, O IRANA, DOES PANDION'S DAUGHTER THE SWALLOW, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wake me?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WILL O' THE WISP, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Follow me, follow me
Last Line: Where he sits, and you shall see!
Subject(s): Mythology; Nature


WILLIAM BOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder whether the girls are mad
Last Line: In the naked & outcast seek love there
Subject(s): Bible; Love; Mythology


WILLIAM COWPER, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For this is being a friend just in the nick
Last Line: For any man to pretend to inspiration
Subject(s): Bible; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Mythology; Poetry & Poets


WINE BOWL, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will rise
Last Line: For the white wine %and the red
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology - Classical


WINGED MAN, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits
Last Line: Mounting, mounting still, triumphant, on his torn and broken wings!
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical


WINTER-SONG FOR PAN, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: See how a king can slumber on his throne
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


WISE IN MANY THINGS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WISGA, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wisga walks at night
Last Line: But no one blames wisga %anymore
Subject(s): Mythology - Native American


WISHES FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What would I ask the kindly fates to give
Last Line: To make the best of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Girls; Love; Soul; Wishes


WITH EYES LIKE THAT, STAND STILL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bold as friends before each other
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH ILLUSTRATION TO GRAY'S POEMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the springs of gray my wild root weaves
Last Line: Traveller repose & dream among my leaves,
Subject(s): Bible; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Mythology


WITH QUICKENED HEART THEY HOVERED, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My heart grows chill
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH THAT ISLAND-BORN, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And all in a dream
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH THE BRIDE THAT HAPPY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let the bridegroom rejoice
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITH THE HUNTRESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the water-eye of night
Last Line: Maid-preserver, man-maker.
Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Hunting; Mythology; Woods; Hunters


WITH THE PERSUADER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who murmurs, hither, hither: who
Last Line: The music beauty from it draws.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


WITH THIS FLESH, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ...On the twenty-eighth day of september 1539,the very excel- %lent
Last Line: With this flesh I thee wed
Subject(s): Geology; Mythology


WITH WHAT EYES?, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WITHOUT GUILE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD: 4. HER TRIUMPH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did the dragon's will until you came
Last Line: And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Love; Mythology


WORD WENT AROUND, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Young beyond acheron
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WORDS OF LOS, FR, JERUSALEM, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must create a system, ot be enslav'd by another man's
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


WORLD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I could not hope
Last Line: To touch the sky %with my two arms
Variant Title(s): I Could Not Hop
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WORLD, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man in my dream said, let me live, but that
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


WORLD, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man in my dream said, let me live, but that
Last Line: Man? I was then. I won't forgive you, world %I won't survive
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east
Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so %near
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses


WORMWOOD, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is humiliating
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WORSHIP OF GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is easier to forgive and enemy than to forgive a friend
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


WRAPPED UP IN RICH SHAGGY WOOL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


WRATH OF GOD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The breath divine went forth over the morning hills. Albion rose
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology


WU MOUNTAIN, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the ju-tang's winding course is done
Last Line: Too bad - for had you never returned, %forgoing food, you would surely never have died
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mountains; Mythology


X, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I used to think of you as my helen
Last Line: And I'll give you treasures you can't even conceive
Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Relationships


YARILA, by SERGEI GORODETSKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First to sharpen the ax-flint they bent
Last Line: A new god.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Russian; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


YEARNING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wilt in your absence
Last Line: As they stamp purple blossoms %into the green grass
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YESTERDAY, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All days gone by are one with yesterday
Last Line: Are but as foam upon a sea immense.
Subject(s): Mythology


YOU CAME, AND I WAS MAD TO HAVE YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your breath cooled my heart that was burning with desire
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU CAME. AND YOU DID WELL TO COME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Welcome, darling, be blessed three times %for all the hours of our separation
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU DON'T BELIEVE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You don't believe I won't attempt to make ye
Last Line: Try ,try & never mind the reason why
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Sleep


YOU HATE ME WHO LOVES YOU, ATTHIS, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And flutter around andromeda
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU HAVE BEGUN TO FORGET ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or do you love some other?
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU HAVE COME, AND DONE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That burned my heart
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or else you love some other person more than me
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU LAY IN WAIT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And suddenly: beauty %of your garments
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU MAKE ME HOT, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU SHOWED UP. I WANTED YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who in a breath chilled me to the marrow
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU TOO, KALLIOPA, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yourself
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU WERE TO ME THEN A SHY LITTLE GIRL, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU WHO SPURNED ME AND MY SONG, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead, no thought of you from anyone
Last Line: Unseen, and restless there, among the corpses
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOU WILL DIE AND NO ONE WILL REMEMBER YOU, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In hades' house, and flutter about %among the dark, not illustrious dead
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


YOUNG BRIDE, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like to the apple reddest-bright
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


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


YOUR DARLING, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical