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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PERSEPHONE Matches Found: 43 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 |
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