|
|
|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.) Matches Found: 10 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DAUGHTERS OF OEDIPUS, by GRACE SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Antigone, choosing her death Last Line: The gods have no design for me at all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Women's Rights EPITAPH FOR SOPHOCLES, by SIMIAS OF THEBES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Last Line: Whose soul, exalted like a god of wit, %among the muses and the graces writ Alternate Author Name(s): Simmias Of Thebes Subject(s): Sophocles (496-406 B.c.) OEDIPUS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sophocles could undertake alone Last Line: To please you more, but burning of a pope. Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Greeks; Dramatists ON A LINE FROM SOPHOCLES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you cruel, you find me less than fair Last Line: Time, time, my friend, makes havoc everywhere. Subject(s): Enemies; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Time; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SOPHOCLES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sophocles, I would know greek for thee Last Line: We clasp and grope along, but cannot sing. Subject(s): Sophocles (496-406 B.c.) SOPHOCLES, by PHRYNICHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blessed sophocles, who, dying old Last Line: And beautiful his end, who lived untroubled. Subject(s): Sophocles (496-406 B.c.) SOPHOCLES' TOMB, by SIMIAS OF THEBES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind gently, ivy, o'er the tomb Last Line: With graces and the muses nine. Alternate Author Name(s): Simmias Of Thebes Subject(s): Graves; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF SOPHOCLES, by SIMIAS OF THEBES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly, ivy, on sopholces' grave - right, tenderly - twine Last Line: Priest of the gay and profound, sweetest of singers terrene. Alternate Author Name(s): Simmias Of Thebes Subject(s): Death; Graves; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF SOPHOCLES, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bounding satyr, golden in the beard Last Line: Nor sees the sun wheel round in the white dome. Subject(s): Graves; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Tombs; Tombstones TO A FRIEND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who prop, thou ask'st, in these bad days, my mind? Last Line: Singer of sweet colonus, and its child. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey |
|