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Subject: PROPERTIUS, SEXTUS (50-15 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BAD NIGHT ON THIRD AVENUE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of my frequent little
Last Line: Up paddy's bar & then went %home to hate his bed alone
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.); Unfaithfulness


EYES ARE THE GUIDES OF LOVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said propertius - oculi sunt
Last Line: It isn't for me to know
Subject(s): Eyes; Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 1, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shades of callimachus, coan ghosts of philetas
Last Line: A name not to be worn out with the years.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 10, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light, light of my eyes, at an exceeding late hour I was wandering
Last Line: Since that day I have had no pleasant nights.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 11, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The harsh acts of your levity!
Last Line: Though you walk in the via sacra, with a peacock's tail for a fan.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 12, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who, who will be the next man to entrust his girl to a friend?
Last Line: And now propertius of cynthia, taking his stand among these.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 2, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had been seen in the shade, recumbent on cushioned helicon
Last Line: Stiffened our face with the backwash of philetas the coan.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 3, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight, and a letter comes to me from our mistress
Last Line: At any rate I shall not have my epitaph in a high road.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 4. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH LYGDAMUS, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me the truths which you hear of our constant young lady
Last Line: After twelve months of discomfort?
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 5, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now if ever it is time to cleanse helicon
Last Line: "because helen's conduct is ""unsuitable."
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 6, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids
Last Line: Small talk comes from small bones.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 7, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Me happy night, night full of brightness
Last Line: God am I for the time.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 8, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove, be merciful to that unfortunate woman
Last Line: There will be, in any case, a stir on olympus.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 9, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The twisted rhombs ceased their clamour of accompaniment
Last Line: Promised me.
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


NO MY DEAR, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll not wish you the death
Last Line: The world so go your way %my dear and I'll go mine
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)