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Subject: SISYPHUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` SCARABAEUS SISYPHUS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've watched thee, scarab! Yea, an hour in vain
Last Line: Life's stone, recoiling from the alps of time?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Sisyphus; Bugs


SISYPHUS, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy of the spring time! How the sun
Subject(s): Sisyphus


SISYPHUS, by ROBERT GARIOCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whyn stane
Last Line: Sisyphus odderan eftir it, shair of his cheque at the month's end
Subject(s): Sisyphus


SISYPHUS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young and full of shame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Sisyphus


SISYPHUS, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sisyphus was pushing the stone up the mountain
Last Line: The heavy stone
Subject(s): Sisyphus


SISYPHUS, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sisyphus was pushing the stone up the mountain
Last Line: This belief damned him, and damned, what's harder, %the heavy stone
Subject(s): Sisyphus


SISYPHUS, by ALBERT TALLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sisyphus, old comrade
Subject(s): Sisyphus


SISYPHUS, by SOLVEIG VON SCHOULTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus far was he shown mercy
Subject(s): Sisyphus


SISYPHUS, by GARY J. WHITEHEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in this hard place, my face to the gales
Last Line: Drop and let roll, carry for a time, drop and let roll
Subject(s): Sisyphus


SISYPHUS BLIND, by JAMES RAGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have imagined him always blind
Last Line: Like a meteor burning up space
Subject(s): Blindness; Sisyphus


SUSPICOR SPECULUM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seeing, where the rock falls blind, this figure
Last Line: Capable neither of song nor silence?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Sisyphus