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Subject: NIOBE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPITAPH ON NIOBE TURNED TO STONE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This pile thou seest built out of flesh, not stone
Last Line: Is neither tomb nor body, and yet both.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Niobe


EPIGRAM: NIOBE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By childrens births, and death, I am become
Last Line: So dry, that I am now mine owne sad tombe.
Subject(s): Niobe


ETHIOPIA, by KATE DANIELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Niobe lives in the desert, too. %she spends her days bent over
Last Line: Is different. Niobe %bends over, niobe %bends
Subject(s): Ethiopia; Niobe


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 6. NIOBE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swift thro' the phrygian towns the rumour flies
Last Line: There yet her marble cheeks eternal tears distil
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Niobe


NIOBE, by LARS LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Niobe %was changed into stone
Last Line: The way the devil reads the bible, said the devil
Subject(s): Archeology; Niobe; Statues; Stones


NIOBE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How like the sky she bends above her child
Subject(s): Niobe


NIOBE; ON SIPYLUS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me, ah me! On this high mountain
Last Line: Grief all divine and vindicating love.
Subject(s): Niobe


ODES IV, 6. INVOCATION TO APOLLO, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Divine phoebus, who slew the children of niobe
Last Line: When the times restored to us the festive days
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Niobe


ON NIOBE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Charon! Receive a family on board
Last Line: "by me too proudly spoken, slew us all"
Subject(s): Niobe