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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL Matches Found: 2052 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ( 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 Full 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 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 Full 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 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: 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 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 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) 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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) 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 SONG RISING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 ARTEMIS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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 END OF OUTSIDE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full 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 Full 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 ATLANTIS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'S ISLAND, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full 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 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 4, by EZRA POUND Poem Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; ; Relationships; Disappointment; Books; Reading 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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) CINDERELLA, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full 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 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 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 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 CODA, OVERTURE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 VENUS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full 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'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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 DRESS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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-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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 FESTIVAL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FIELDS TOOK ON..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full 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 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 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 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 FOOL, DON'T TRY TO BEND A STUBBORN HEART, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 GODDESS OF PERSUASION, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Daughter of aphrodita Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 YOUR GAZE TAKES IN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full 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 IMMORTAL APHRODITE, ON YOUR PATTERNED THORNE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 KNEELING SELF-PORTRAIT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full 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 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 LADY DAWN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 LATO AND NIOBA WERE VERY LOVING FRIENDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 Full 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 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 MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full 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 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 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. 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 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 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: 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 MICHAEL WHO WALKS BY NIGHT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full 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 MIKA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Dewfall upon the world Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 O ADONIS!, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 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 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 THE ASTRONAUTS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full 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 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, 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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'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) 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 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 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 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 STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Full 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 Full 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 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, 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'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 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: 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 PERSEPHONE'S CELESTIAL SPHERE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full 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 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 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 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 PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 1. SELF-PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full 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 Full 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 REMEMBER MEDUSA?, by EUNICE DE SOUZA Poem Source First Line: My dumb ox loyalty is Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women 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, 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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, STILL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Against me green %harsh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SINCE WHOMEVER, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Injure me most of all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 SODA, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 TELEMACHUS ON THE WATERFRONT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full 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 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 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 BEAUTIFUL, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ENTRANCE TO UNDERWORLD, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full 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 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 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 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 FLIGHT OF HELEN; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Full 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 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greeks had words for them. They were the parcae: Subject(s): Mythology - Classical 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 GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 LITTLE MERMAID'S FORTUNE TELLER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Refracted through your tide-washed hours, this prince Subject(s): Mythology - Classical 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full 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 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 Full 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 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 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 SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 THOSE DISCORDS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Will reach the sky Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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.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 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 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: 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 GYRINNO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 Full 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 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 UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full 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 UNTIL ALL OF YOU ARE WILLING, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 WORD WENT AROUND, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Young beyond acheron Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 Full 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 WRAPPED UP IN RICH SHAGGY WOOL, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical 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 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 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 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 |
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