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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OVID (43 B.C.-17 A.D.) Matches Found: 50 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 |
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