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Subject: PERSEPHONE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 2. PROSERPINE BY LAKE PERGUSA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lifted on hollow lands and grassy miles
Last Line: Dark lover, death, -- was he not beautiful?
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Lakes; Persephone; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds; Proserpine; Proserpina


ADONIS IN WINTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir
Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


ADONIS IN WINTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir
Last Line: Their mortal lechery in dispassionate hell
Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone


BISTRO STYX, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness
Last Line: One really should try the fruit here.' %I've lost her, I thought, and called for the bill
Subject(s): Paris, France; Persephone


CHAIN OF WOMEN, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the seasons persephone promised
Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies
Last Line: Along the silent field of asphodel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Demeter; Persephone; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina


FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 1. CYCLAMEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the tresses, blown
Last Line: A picture -- a flower!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Persephone; Women; Proserpine; Proserpina


GARDEN OF PROSERPINE, by VERONICA FORREST-THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Last Line: It's the arms of gloomy dis
Subject(s): Persephone


HADES AND PERSEPHONE, by JAMES BROUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ravishing, he rose at her from the gaping earth
Last Line: Fading in his famished embrace
Subject(s): Hades; Persephone


KORE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I was walking
Subject(s): Men; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


KORE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I was walking
Last Line: Leading me %now?
Subject(s): Men; Persephone


MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 2. PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be to her, persephone
Last Line: "it is not so dreadful here."
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Persephone; Vassar College; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina


MISERICORDIA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am frightened master, quivering with fear
Last Line: Writ in her features! Come to me master!
Subject(s): Persephone; Fear


ODE TO PROSERPINE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O daughter of demeter, yet once more
Last Line: And grants the key to her mysterious ways.
Subject(s): Death; Demeter; Faces; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Dead, The; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina


ODES II, 13, SELECTION, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Proserpine's empire glimmer'd o'er my sight
Last Line: And tantalus delude, and soften into ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


PASTORAL: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon upland slope which hides the sun
Last Line: Men's thoughts must borrow rather than bestow.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Persephone; Agriculture; Farmers; Proserpine; Proserpina


PERSEPHONE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stepped upon sicilian grass
Last Line: "the daffodil, the daffodil!"
Subject(s): Daffodils; Daughters; Demeter; Light; Mythology; Persephone; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina


PERSEPHONE PAUSES, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lengthened shadow of my hand
Last Line: But cast it. Summertime, good-night!
Subject(s): Desire; Hades; Persephone; Pomegranates; Women; Women's Rights; Proserpine; Proserpina; Feminism


PERSEPHONE TO DEMETER, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My pillow is cold, mother, and my little bed so neat
Last Line: As it glides between the earth above my cave %and the silent, cloud-masked sky
Subject(s): Demeter; Persephone


PERSEPHONE UNDERGROUND, by RITA DOVE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could touch your ankle, he whispers, there
Variant Title(s): Hades' Pitch
Subject(s): Literary Form; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


PERSEPHONE UNDERGROUND, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could touch your ankle, he whispers, there
Last Line: While the great man drives home his desire
Variant Title(s): Hades' Pitc
Subject(s): Literary Form; Persephone


PERSEPHONE WEARS BLUEJEANS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now but she's the same sweet
Last Line: Grow - she is the leafing tree
Subject(s): Persephone


PERSEPHONE'S CELESTIAL SPHERE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moonlight pools in her hollow bones
Last Line: Too late for life in ancient rome
Subject(s): Persephone; Mythology - Classical


PERSEPHONE, FALLING, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful
Last Line: Opens. This is how one foot sinks into the ground
Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


PERSEPHONE, FALLING, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful
Last Line: This is how one foot sinks into the ground
Subject(s): Persephone


PERSEPHONE, SELECTION, by CHARLES DERENNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: My eternal desire, my child, my friend
Last Line: Each is alone is time's immensity!
Subject(s): Memory; Persephone; Solitude; Proserpine; Proserpina; Loneliness


PERSEPHONE, SELS., by JENNIFER JOSEPH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those who turn their face to the wall
Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny
Subject(s): Persephone


PERSEPHONEIA; A FRAGMENT: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old dull whisper of the unceasing wave
Last Line: Dread, half in expectation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Demeter; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Plays & Playwrights; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina


PHAON IN HADES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day the very dead would love his face
Last Line: Of blame, were I to love his beauty less!
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Hades; Persephone; Tears; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina


PROSERPINA, by BEN SONNENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hades is not what it was, dear
Last Line: Now there are more there than here
Subject(s): Hades; Persephone


PROSERPINA (FOR A PICTURE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afar away the light that brings cold cheer
Last Line: "woe's me for thee, unhappy proserpine!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


PROSERPINE'S RAGOUT, by MARY LEAPOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As once grave pluto drove his royal wheels
Last Line: The wit of england, and the truth of france.
Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


SONG OF PROSERPINE WHILE GATHERING FLOWERS ON PLAIN OF ENNA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sacred goddess, mother earth
Last Line: On thine own child, proserpine.
Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


SONG OF THE STYGIAN NAIADES, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proserpine may pull her flowers
Last Line: Cupid, love, and fie for shame.
Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


SUPPLICATION, by MARGARET H. BRANDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Persephone, persephone
Last Line: She is through remembering.
Subject(s): Mourning; Persephone; Bereavement; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE BISTRO STYX, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness
Last Line: I’ve lost her, I thought, and called for the bill
Subject(s): Paris, France; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE DEPARTURE OF PROSERPINE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old mother earth for me already grieves
Last Line: No secret turning leads from the gods' way.
Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where the world is quiet
Last Line: In an eternal light.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Persephone; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE LITTLE FAUNS TO PROSERPINE, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Browner than the hazel-husk, swifter than the wind
Last Line: Take, ere yet you say good-bye, the love of all the earth.
Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 4. THE DRAWING-ROOM, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then in the drawing- / room that should
Last Line: Persephone.
Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE PROUDEST FRUIT, by ELIZABETH MORROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apples are the proudest fruit
Last Line: Immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


TO PERSEPHONE, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more you weave, persephone
Last Line: They sing of you who died so young.
Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


WISH FOUNDATION, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O holy talk show host, %who daily gives us twenty minutes
Last Line: On the earth, somebody's stupid %idea of perfect symmetry
Subject(s): Persephone