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Subject: MYTHOLOGY - GREEK Matches Found: 28 ADONIS IN SUMMER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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 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's Biography First Line: Father, whose oath in hollow hell is heard Last Line: Curtain Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Ulysses; Odysseus |
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