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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADONIS IN SUMMER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lotophagi with their silly hands
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


HERACLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now heracles performed many more great labors
Last Line: From which curly head poured rivulets of the clearest water
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Peloponnesus, Greece


HERCULES ON OETA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O father of the gods, whose thunderbolt
Last Line: More boldly then thy father jove himself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: PROGNE'S DREAM, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I dreamt
Last Line: And with the struggling waked.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Dreams; Mythology - Greek; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nightmares; Dramatists


IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (GREEK THEATER, AUGUST 14, 1915), by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933)    Poem Text                    
First Line: O godlike gestures, whose compelling sweep
Last Line: Kindling time's ancient silences with light!
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


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


MEDEA, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it, then, done?
Last Line: Falls.]
Subject(s): Greece; Mothers; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Greeks


MEDEA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye gods of marriage
Last Line: Prove that there are no gods where'er thou goest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Medea (mythology); Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


OBADIAH'S GIFT, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Helen knew the future, he was certain, could provide a guiding
Last Line: Was real and he must use it
Subject(s): Genetics; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Greek; Physics; Science


OEDIPUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Already night has fled, dim dawns the day
Last Line: With me,—with me! Such guides for me are meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Oedipus; Tragedy


ON THE STATUE OF BACCHANTE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Restrain that bacchante! Ere the marble maid
Last Line: "leaps from the shrine, and seeks the forest glade"
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek;statues


PHAEDRA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cecropians, go gird the shadowy groves
Last Line: Weigh down her impious head!
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


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)


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 PHOENICIAN WOMEN, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O guide of thy blind father, only cheer
Last Line: Is ever for imperial power paid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Oedipus; Tragedy


THYESTES, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who drags me my place among the shades
Last Line: I give thee over for thy punishment.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


TO A YOUNG POET, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Go, like hippolytus, to win thee bays
Last Line: With all her sullen, unrelenting waves.
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Poetry & Poets


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