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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ODYSSEY Matches Found: 55 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HANDBOOK TO HOMER, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poluphloisboisterous homer of old Last Line: That is the homer for college and school! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Greek Language; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey A YOUTHFUL EXPERIMENT IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS: IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes come pauses of calm, when the rapt bard, holding his heart back Last Line: Swaying the listener's fantasy hither and thither like driftweed. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey AFTER READING HOMER, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who on the mountain-side Last Line: O dear divine old giant, at thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey 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 ASOLANDO: DEVELOPMENT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a scholar and knew greek Last Line: Nor crumple, dogs-ear and deface -- boys' way. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Scholarship & Scholars; Iliad; Odyssey 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 DEAR HOMER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five this morning I opened half an eye Last Line: Keeps coming up. Subject(s): Dawn; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Iliad; Odyssey ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS, by ROBERT HASS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In one version of the legend the sirens couldn't sing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor - could I bring within my visual scope Last Line: Of god and man conspiring to the sound! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Iliad; Odyssey; Fancy HELLENICS: HOMER, LAERTES, AGATHA; FIRST DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this laertes who embraces me Last Line: Thy weary feet, and lead thee back, now late. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HELLENICS: HOMER, LAERTES, AGATHA; SECOND DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is the soft and pulpy hand that lies Last Line: This ithaca, this people, and this king! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HELLENICS: LAERTES, HOMER, AGATHA; THIRD DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now, maeonides, the sun hath risen Last Line: Were hard, but harder to behold thy grief. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HER RIGHT NAME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As nancy at her toilet sat Last Line: Your chloe, or your nut-brown maid?' Subject(s): Beauty; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Lavatories; Love; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey; Toilets HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of homer! Last Line: Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Can all the wreaths that crown his head Last Line: To be as much renowned as he? / I would in sooth 'twere offered me Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey HOMER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the glass of the aegean sea Last Line: Come near and pause, -- which choose you of the two? Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Memory; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER, by ALBERT EHRENSTEIN Poem Text First Line: I sang the songs of red revenge Last Line: Trouble the limpid eyes of the world. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER IN BASIC, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glitter of nausicaa's / embroideries, flashing arms Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER'S BIRTHPLACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Seven cities now contend for homer dead Last Line: Through which the living homer begged his bread Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the time he wrote, a sort of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER, BLIND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the tale wise aristoteles Last Line: And left the ages brighter for his loss. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMERIC UNITY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred keep of ilion is rent Last Line: Of indivisible supremacy! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey ILIAD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False dreams, all false Last Line: When love's over, endures. Subject(s): Future Life; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Iliad; Odyssey LAUREL'S WORTH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My too great love of you hath been my bale Last Line: And on their fame the fates shall have no hold. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Youth; Iliad; Odyssey LOST ILIADS, by ESTHER FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: A pile of ruins on a wind swept plain Last Line: Will perish for the singing youth lie slain. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Ruins; Iliad; Odyssey LOVE, WEEPING, LAID THIS SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! An old song, yellow with centuries! Last Line: Troy trembles like a reed before the blast! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mummies; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey ODE TO APOLLO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thy western halls of gold Last Line: From thee, great god of bards, receive their heavenly birth. Subject(s): Dramatists; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Iliad; Odyssey; Dramatists ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I traveled in the realms of gold Last Line: Silent, upon a peak in darien. Variant Title(s): To The Adventurous Subject(s): Books; Chapman, George (1559-1634); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Thought; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking ON HOMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Still in our ears andromache complains Last Line: For all the world is proud that he was born Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey ON HOMER'S BIRTHPLACE, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From colophon some deem thee sprung Last Line: No other than calliope. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could homer come himself, distressed and poor Last Line: "begone! No tramper gets a farthing here!" Subject(s): Hate; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey PARNASSUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What be those crowned forms high over the sacred fountain? Last Line: Let the golden iliad vanish, homer here is homer there. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey 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 PHILENA TO MENANDER, by SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Blest poet! Whose eolian lyre Last Line: And be the palm of genius thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Philenia Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Muses; Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Time; Iliad; Odyssey PHILOCTETES (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent they gaze from ilion's battlements Last Line: Her fate, - the ten-years' exile hath returned! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey PHILOCTETES (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onward the fatal hours and minutes steal Last Line: The dreadful purport of his chief's recall. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey 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 SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism SONNET: TO HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing aloof in giant ignorance Last Line: To dian, queen of earth, and heaven, and hell. Variant Title(s): To Homer Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon nephele from her many Last Line: And stallions for the night's desire Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey THE EPIC STARS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heroic stars spending themselves Last Line: Oh happy homer, taking the stars and the gods for granted Subject(s): Stars; Heroism; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Heroes; Heroines; Iliad; Odyssey THE GRAVE OF HOMER, by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The visionary dream of life is o'er Last Line: The star of song -- the grace of graces -- sleeps. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows Last Line: Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the depth of ida's inmost grove Last Line: And the strong earthquake rends the shuddering ground. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey 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 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 RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veteran greeks came home Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey THE SCHOOL BOY READS HIS ILIAD, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sounding battles leave him nodding still Last Line: He dreams of marbles and of tops, and nods. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students THE STUDENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As by salamanca's city Last Line: Travelled with me, ever near. Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students TO A FRIEND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who prop, thou ask'st, in these bad days, my mind? Last Line: Singer of sweet colonus, and its child. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey TO HIS VALET, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want three days to read the iliad through! Last Line: His heaven, shut fast the door! Don't let him in! Subject(s): Books; Goddesses & Gods; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey TO PYRRHA IN THE POCONOS, by RHEINHART KLEINER Poem Text First Line: Sweet, you have gone for a season's vacationing Last Line: You are expected at home in a week! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey 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 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 WOLF AND THE CASKET; OR THE UNITY OF THE ILIAD, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though wolf, in hypercritic zeal, insists Last Line: The war from fight to fight, from book to book. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Wolf, Friedrich August (1795-1824); Iliad; Odyssey |
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