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Subject: OVID (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AJAX HIS SPEECH TO THE GRECIAN KNABBS, SELS., by ROBERT FORBES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wight an' doughty captains a'
Last Line: Be said to be my maik
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 1, ELEGY 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute
Last Line: While in unequal verse I sing my woes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; War; Eros


AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 2, ELEGY 19, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If for thy self thou wilt not watch thy whore
Last Line: In hopes whereof I rest thy cuckold-maker.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


ARACHNE GIVES THANKS TO ATHENA, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is no punishment. They are mistaken
Last Line: Hang them with rainbows, ice, dewdrops, darkness
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights


CEYX AND ALCYONE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These prodigies affect the pious prince
Last Line: And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CHANCE TO MACAREUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If streaming blood my fatal letter stain
Last Line: As I perform my cruel fathers will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


CINYRAS AND MYRRHA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor him alone produc'd the fruitful queen
Last Line: And, with her pains, reveng'd his mother's fires.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Death; Life; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The


DAPHNE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poet, singer, necromancer
Last Line: With delight, if I so choose
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights


DIDO TO AENEAS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, on meander's banks when death is nigh
Last Line: Aeneas gave: the rest her arm supply'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Aeneas; Despair; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


EXILE, by GEORGE FREDERICK MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ovid forlorn by the black sea
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


HELEN TO PARIS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When loose epistles violate chast eyes
Last Line: And may hereafter better news impart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Letters; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paris (mythology); Translating & Interpreting


IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is the long dream in the afternoon
Last Line: All of his new body away from me.
Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rain; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids


LETTER TO UNCLE O; FOR ANDREI CORDESCU, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear publius ovidius / 'the nose'
Last Line: Between the lines
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


LIKELY STORY, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Atalanta, all her life
Last Line: To find a fellow who will cheat
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights


LINES WRITTEN IN AN OVID, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ovid is the surest guide
Last Line: Who resolves to go astray.
Subject(s): Mnemonics; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


METAMOPHOSES: PYGMALION AND THE STATUE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life
Last Line: The city paphos, from the founder call'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pygmalion; Statues; Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting


METAMOPHOSES: THE FABLE OF ACIS, POLYPHEMUS, AND GALATEA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Acis, the lovely youth, whose loss I mourn
Last Line: With rapid motion, and his name retains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Fables; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of bodies changed to various forms I sing
Last Line: And saw the palace by the purple light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Creation; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting; Human Race


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 11. AESACUS TRANSFORMED INTO A CORMORANT, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These some old man sees wanton in the air
Last Line: From frequent diving and emerging came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 12, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Priam, to whom the story was unknown
Last Line: And to the grecian chiefs transferr'd the cause.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 13. THE SPEECHES OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chiefs were set; the soldiers crown'd the field
Last Line: But those express the grief, and these the name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Death; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Troy; War; Dead, The


METAMORPHOSES: MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrath touches ev'n the gods; the queen of night
Last Line: Who yearly round the tomb in feather'd flocks repair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


METAMORPHOSES: OF THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A king is sought to guide the growing state
Last Line: And all the muses o'er his acts preside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Death; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Philosophy & Philosophers; Rome, Italy; Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The


METAMORPHOSES: THE FABLE OF IPHIS AND IANTHE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fame of this, perhaps, through crete had flown
Last Line: And the warm youth enjoys the lovely maid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Fables; Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Reputation


NIOBE IN DISTRESS FOR HER CHILDREN SLAIN BY APOLLO, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo's wrath to man the dreadful spring
Last Line: "but from the marble steal the silent tears."
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paintings And Painters; Wilson, Richard (1714-1782)


NON-WORLD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is too much with me daylong and
Last Line: Jesse jackson and help him dis- %pose of that hollywood cowboy
Subject(s): Herodotus (484-420 B.c.); Jackson, Jesse (b. 1941); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Wilmot, John (1647-1680)


ON BEAUTY; A RIDDLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Resolve me, cloe, what is this
Last Line: Of idle tales, and foolish riddles.
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Kisses; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Riddles


ON LOOKING INTO GOLDING'S OVID, by STEVE SCAFIDI JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's still the same-he turns, she turns-the end
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


OVID, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who has not been exiled
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


OVID AT PONTUS, by GREGORY MCNAMEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men and women, particles
Last Line: To dive the ancient course of dophins %gliding home to metapontum
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


OVID IN EXILE, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forgotten by the seven hills by the lofty skies
Last Line: Only enemies remain faithful
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Romania - German Minority


OVID IN EXILE, by DENNIS NURKSE                       
First Line: Your hosts are kind
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


OVID IN EXILE, by GENE THORNTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hate the quiet, green suburban hills
Last Line: That taper down too soon to red-eyed dawn
Subject(s): Exiles; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rome, Italy


OVID IN MASQUERADE, SELS., by JOHN DURANT BREVAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soaring dons of greece sat down
Last Line: Twixt hawk and buzzard, bellows, oh sirs
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


OVID ON THE DACIAN COAST, by DUNSTAN THOMPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Airs from the sea blown back
Last Line: By the dog star only, for so %based, his poems aee his own land
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


OVID TO HIS WIFE: IMITATED FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF TRISTIA, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My aged head now stoops its honours low
Last Line: And the warm ashes feel thy pious hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


OVID, MEET A METAMORPHODITE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hermaphroditus, a delight, a
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sex Role; Mythology


OVID, OLD BUDDY, I WOULD DISCOURSE WITH YOU A WHILE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon mutability - if it were possible. But you don't
Last Line: Tremble as if a wind even from olympus were meandering through the room
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


PHAETON, SELS., by WILLIAM MESTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sol's mannor was a pretty good house
Last Line: Judge ye if phoebus was not sorry
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


PHILOMELA, SELS., by BETH FEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the night a winged man comes to me
Last Line: Paint our faces ember red %and howl
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights


SANDY'S GHOST; OR ... BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lords and commons, men of wit
Last Line: Quoth sandys: to waste-paper.
Subject(s): Dunton, John (1659-1733); Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sandys, George (1578-1644); Stanyan, Temple (d. 1752); Translating & Interpreting


SPRING-TIME, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For once the zephyrs have removed the cold
Last Line: Some scantling buds, like ill-set gems, unfold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Flowers; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Spring


STORY OF CINYRAS AND MYRRHA, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For shame be gone, maids, young and stale
Last Line: And from our myrrha takes its name
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


THE ADULTERER'S CODE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your husband will be with us at the treat
Last Line: Coax me to-morrow, by forswearing all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Variant Title(s): To His Mistress;ovid's Amours: 1, Eleg: 4
Subject(s): Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


THE ART OF LOVE: 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cupid's school whoe'er wou'd take degree
Last Line: But here 'tis time to rest my self and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Eros


THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE, DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column
Last Line: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
Subject(s): Mnemonics; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Poetry & Poets


TO GEORGE CHAPMAN ON HIS OVID, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Onely that eye which for true love doth weepe
Subject(s): Chapman, George (1559-1634); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


TO SIR ASTON COCKAYNE, ON HIS TRAGEDY OF OVID, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long live the poet, and his lovely muse
Last Line: Our modern ovid has the better grace.
Subject(s): Cockayne, Sir Aston (1616-1684); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


WORD-PORTRAITS: OVID, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quaint was ovid in his rhyme
Last Line: And as he said, so think I.
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.)


WRITTEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: However high, however cold, the fair
Last Line: Who must not speak, and therefore cannot live!
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pity; Sorrow; Sadness