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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PLATO (428-348 B.C.) Matches Found: 19 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPIGRAM: SPIRIT OF PLATO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Eagle! Why soarest thou above that tomb? Last Line: Ascending heaven; athens doth inherit / his corpse below Variant Title(s): Plato's Tomb Subject(s): Birds;death;eagles;plato (428-348 B.c.);soul; "dead, The; GOOD PHILOSOPHY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I give you an apple, if you love me Last Line: And reflect on how short - lived is beauty Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Pentastichs; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Transience IN PLATO'S CAVE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I prayed for vision in the night Last Line: That no one, not even the wounded, feels. Subject(s): Love; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Soul LAIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let her who walks in paphos Last Line: Wishing to see that face and finding this. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism MEDITATION, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diving within myself, I found Last Line: But fell, and vanished into sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677); Reading NOVEMBER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unable to sleep, I spend the predawn hours Last Line: Shapes in the frost like hopeful boats. Subject(s): Bible; Desire; God; November; Plato (428-348 B.c.) ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere! Last Line: For a robin's song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks ON THE PLATONIC IDEA, AS IT WAS UNDERSTOOD BY ARISTOTLE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sister powers, who o'er the sacred groves Last Line: A wilder fabulist, go also forth. Subject(s): Plato (428-348 B.c.) PERSEPHONE IN THE UNDERWORLD: 2. FOOTNOTE TO PLATO, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: I was queen of a rainy state, rich Last Line: Where you, queen of the dead, hold court Subject(s): Plato (428-348 B.c.) PLANTONICK LOVE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed I must confess Last Line: Should steal her quite from me. Subject(s): Love; Plato (428-348 B.c.) PLATO AND DIOGENES, by JAMES F. GORE Poem Source First Line: There's a story, once current, ... Still told Subject(s): Plato (428-348 B.c.) PLATO CONTEMPLATING THE DEATH OF SOCRATES, by STEVEN LAUTERMILCH Poem Source First Line: You, %contemplating %him, %moving Last Line: This room, this %body, %these fingers, this %dream Subject(s): Plato (428-348 B.c.); Socrates (470-399 B.c.) PLATO'S BAD HORSE, by DEBORAH WOODARD Poem Source First Line: I wanted plato's bad horse Last Line: To join the halves of what I still don't know Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Plato (428-348 B.c.) PLATO, MELENDEZ, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Plato was right, %melendez proves it Last Line: The cherries, the jug Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Paintings And Painters; Philosophy And Philosophers; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Poetry And Poets SAYS PLATO, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says plato, 'once in greece the gods Last Line: From pure soft gold of old? Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Plato (428-348 B.c.) SONNET: 7, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That learned grecian who did so excel Last Line: No wonder now I feel so fair a flame, %sith I loved ere on this earth she came Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Plato (428-348 B.c.) THE BALLAD OF ISKANDER, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sultan iskander sat him down Last Line: The silver ship sailed on and on. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Plato (428-348 B.c.) THE HEAVENLY WAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavenly way! The narrow path that leads Last Line: And peace celestial with the morning star! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Heaven; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Paradise VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The satire should be like the porcupine Last Line: For welthy thames to change his lowly rhene. Subject(s): Nature; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Porcupines; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect |
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