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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHIELDS Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF A SHIELD, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was all of a shield on a tree Last Line: They loved one another and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Subject(s): Duels; Shields ILIAD: ACHILLES' SHIELD (PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF BOOK 8 IN 1598), by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright-footed thetis did the sphere aspire Last Line: With vulcan's armes wrought for eternall day Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields; Trojan War ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the men fought on like a mass of whirling fire Last Line: Bearing the brilliant gear, the god of fire's gift Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields; Trojan War MATER IN EXTREMIS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand between them and the outer winds Last Line: I am about to fall. Subject(s): Failure; Shields RIDDLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Injured by iron -- I am a loner Last Line: By death-blows dealt -- day and night Subject(s): Riddles; Shields; War RIDDLE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am a lonely being, scarred by swords Last Line: Through deadly contest, both by day and night Subject(s): Riddles; Shields SHIELD, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What belongs to one %cannot belong to another Last Line: The alligator too %are beginning to move Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Shields SHIELD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wounded I am, and weary with fighting Last Line: Daily and nightly redouble my wounds Subject(s): Riddles; Shields SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She looked over his shoulder Last Line: Who would not live long Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 5. THE HUMAN SHIELD, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: Why did he put mothers and children Last Line: And the coming of the great winds Subject(s): Shields; War THAT GOOD SHIELD I THREW AWAY, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Source Last Line: And I'll get me a better one Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Shields THE POET'S SHIELD, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Text First Line: A perfect shield bedecks some thracian now Last Line: A new one's just as good. Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Shields THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She looked over his shoulder Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields THREE FUNCTIONS OF IRONY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 1, the shield Last Line: 3. The ambush Subject(s): Irony; Shields |
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