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Subject: NAXOS (ISLAND), GREECE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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'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


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


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