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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SOCRATES (470-399 B.C.) Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BANQUET, by ERNEST BENSHIMOL Poem Text First Line: After the song the love, and after the love the play Last Line: But water at morning is quench for the thirsting! Subject(s): Feasts; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) A FLUTE OVERHEARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey summer / low tide the sea in the air Subject(s): Flutes; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) CLOUDS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: P dear! O dear! Last Line: We have acted our part enough for to-day Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) COTTON-WOOL, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shun the brush and shun the pen Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Stars ENTHYMEME IN PERSPECTIVE, by KAREN DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: Socrates was a man Last Line: But what of us, we then began to wonder %what would become of us? Subject(s): Death; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) FLUTE OVERHEARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey summer %low tide the sea in the air Last Line: Reading socrates on death Subject(s): Flutes; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) I WAS ONCE A BOY, by RAZEL LEBENSBOIM Poem Source First Line: I was once a boy, a stripling Last Line: And wild tales about the jews Subject(s): Jews; Roman Empire; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) IN THE DAYS OF SOCRATES, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time was god judged Last Line: Or %wisdom Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) ONE MORE THING, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: Pikkolo jean picked primo levi from the work detail Last Line: Said: 'I want to die %knowing one more thing.' Subject(s): Levi, Primo (1919-1987); Socrates (470-399 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.) SATIRE: 4, by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS Poem Text First Line: Who-e're thou art, whose forward years are bent Last Line: But what thou art; and find the beggar there. Alternate Author Name(s): Persius Subject(s): Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Pericles (490-429 B.c.); Socrates (470-399 B.c.) SOCRATES, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing a greek, the wisest Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) SOCRATES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, mighty heathen, wert not so bereft Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) SOCRATES, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Source First Line: He came coarse-cloaked, grotesque as ... Pan Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) SOCRATES, by EAMONN NOLAN Poem Source First Line: I know an old man Last Line: As he welcomes me, %feverishly cleaning cups Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) SOCRATES, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is fair virtue's immemorial Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) THE CLOUDS: SOCRATES' EXPERIMENTS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I must go. Why keep on loitering here Last Line: Imperial zeus! What subtilty of thought! Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) THE CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS Poem Text First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei THE DEATH OF SOCRATES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was come: its earliest morn had brought Last Line: That ever knew not god. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) THE IMMORTAL RESIDUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and the lofty heart and tears - these three Last Line: Hold back their portion due of tears and dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Tears; Nightmares THE PRISONER, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: A lump, they said, from some primeval state Last Line: Set free by him whose touch may kindle all. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Prophecy & Prophets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Convicts THE REPLY OF SOCRATES, CONCERNING THE WRITINGS OF HERACLITUS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When socrates had read, as authors note Last Line: Of heraclitus and of socrates. Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Socrates (470-399 B.c.) THE WANDERER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reared my growing soul on dainty food Last Line: Living and dying, thine. Subject(s): Doubt; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Wandering & Wanderers; Skepticism VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy were galen to be weigh'd in gold Last Line: Purchaseth realmes, and life prolonged brings. Subject(s): Death; Health; Life; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Dead, The |
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