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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PENELOPE (MYTHOLOGY) Matches Found: 35 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMORETTI: 23, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Penelope, for her ulysses' [ulisses] sake Last Line: Whose fruitlesse worke is broken with least wynd. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "doing And Undoing;""penelope For Her Ulisses' Sake,""; Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Melancholy AN ANCIENT GESTURE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) ANCIENT GESTURE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron Last Line: He learned it from penelope... %penelope, who really cried Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: At the last bend of the jetway Last Line: Every inch of ariadne's proffered string Subject(s): Daedalus; Mythology - Greek; Penelope (mythology) ITHACA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of wisdom and endurance rare Last Line: Rest, care-worn mortal, rest, and let his sleep be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Variant Title(s): The Return Of Ulysses Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus ODYSSEY: PENELOPE HESITATES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She turned then to descend the stair, her heart Last Line: Before long she will see and know me best Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses ODYSSEY: PENELOPE WEEPS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, many tales ulysses told his wife Last Line: Of bridling passion, he from issue saf't Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses ODYSSEY: PENELOPE WEEPS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now all these lies he made appear so truthful Last Line: Wept, if he willed to, inwardly Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PAN AS THE SON OF PENELOPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Refresh my thoughts of penelope again Last Line: About waking up the world Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, ulysses, whither dost thou roam Last Line: Thou comest not, and I am tired and old. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Odysseus, the moon Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PENELOPE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have looked for you at the familiar center Last Line: Who in the dead thesis of voyage, avoids me. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Patience; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by LUCILLE EVANS Poem Source First Line: The wheel of years a score of times has spun Alternate Author Name(s): Stillwell, Evan Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PENELOPE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have no illusions as to what Last Line: To have him forgiving me was my only lapse Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE, by ANNE LE MARQUAND HARTIGAN Poem Source First Line: Are you waiting Last Line: Do only fools love Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Of course she is tricking the suitors Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Text First Line: Penelope never has raveled as I have raveled Last Line: Under the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Each night at my weaving in the room above Last Line: Lying sleepless at his snoring side Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had heard from her several times during his long absence Last Line: Faithful to him, body and heart, as he was to her in his heart alone, alas Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had heard from her several times during his long absence Last Line: He stands there for a long time before letting himself plunge to %the bottom of her eyes Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pathway of the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War; Odysseus PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pathway of the sun Last Line: Bleach the linen for my bed %they will call him brave Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War PENELOPE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is scarcely Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Patience PENELOPE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, like a wind, shook wide your blossomy eyes Last Line: If so you love me! Subject(s): Love; Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE ALIGNS THE LOOM, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: When he sailed here from helen's Last Line: That wake on their relectant travels back Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PENELOPE TO ULYSSES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Penelope to the tardy ulysses Last Line: Are not worth the price I've paid for victory Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Pentastichs PENELOPE TO ULYSSES; A FRAGMENT, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return my dearest lord, at length return Last Line: Forgetful, and despising of thy wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE'S DESPAIR, by YANNIS RITSOS Poem Source First Line: It wasn't that she didn't recognize him in the light from Last Line: Flying low on the flat sky of her final enduring Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus PENELOPE/THE WHITE DOOR, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I'm beyond hope Last Line: Sometimes when I'm beyond hope Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veteran greeks came home Last Line: Hesitant, sure and slow: %she, alone in her tower Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry And Poets; Trojan War 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 WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Odysseus ULYSSES EMBROIDERED, by MIRIAM DWORKIN WADDINGTON Poem Source First Line: You've come %at last from Last Line: She made many %journeys Subject(s): Penelope (mythology) WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so %near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses |
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