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Subject: PLATO (428-348 B.C.)
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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