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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STATUES Matches Found: 179 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1892-1941, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be moved comes of want, though want be complete Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Statues A FRAGMENT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And by that mansion's western side there stoode Last Line: And meeke unconscious state and winning majestie. Subject(s): Monasteries; Statues; Abbeys A GODDESS; A SONNET ON A GREEK HEAD, by JAMES DUVAL PHELAN Poem Text First Line: It is not awe that holds one - 'tis not love Last Line: And humbly man remains devotional. Subject(s): Statues A KIND-HEARTED STATUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quiet little transvaal Last Line: Why, it is blest again! Subject(s): Kruger, Stephanus Johannes (1825-1904); Statues; Transvaal, South Africa A PIONEER WOMAN, by IRENE WELCH GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: A statue stands in a city block Last Line: "to lie in an unmarked grave." Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Statues; Heroines A SOUL; A STUDY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stands as pale as parian statues stand Last Line: Her face and will athirst against the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Statues; Women; Women & Religion A STATUE BY LYSIPPUS, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sculptor's country? Sicyon his name? Last Line: Here in the porch I stand; my lesson take. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Lysippus (4th Century B.c.); Statues A STATUE IN A GARDEN, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a goddess ere the marble found me Last Line: The dead leaves are falling. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Statues A STATUE OF CYPRIS, by ANYTE Poem Text First Line: Here cypris dwells. Always it was her will Last Line: Quivers to watch her radiant effigy. Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Statues A STUDY IN CLAY, by NELLIE MACK Poem Text First Line: The human face is a study to me Last Line: Which the soul of the miser daily feed. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues AGADIR, SELS., by ARTUR LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I was reading of the hunter gracchus, whose coming was Last Line: Never more %forever %agadir Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Monuments; Statues; Stones ANTINOUS, by NARCISSE WOOD Poem Text First Line: In sullen sweetness he stands, the fairest frail boy of Last Line: When the ancient pitiful sins are blown as dust down the wind. Subject(s): Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by KENNETH PITCHFORD Poem Source First Line: We wouldn't recognize the shocking head Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We did not know his unfamiliar head Last Line: Which does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Imagination; Men; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Vision ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never knew his head and all the light Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To live a hero, then to stand Last Line: Still helps to make them loyal, strong, and free! Alternate Author Name(s): Droch Subject(s): Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Heroism; Statues; Washington Square, New York City; Heroes; Heroines BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU REMEMBER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Vatican Palace; Statues; Memory BEFORE A STATUE OF ACHILLES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold pelides with his yellow hair Last Line: The perfect body is itself the soul. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Statues BEFORE A STATUE OF BUDDHA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O buddha, of the mystic smile Last Line: Atones for earthly pain. Subject(s): Buddhism; Life; Love; Soul; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists BEFORE THE BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, thou never art Last Line: Have they hurt thee? Subject(s): Buddhism; Death; Memory; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists; Dead, The BRAILLE FOR LEFT HAND, by OCTAVIO ARMAND Poem Source First Line: The world does not close in your eyes; there Last Line: Lines, mole; make your little space; read Subject(s): Statues BRONZES: 1, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bronze general grant riding a bronze horse in Last Line: And make to ride his bronze horse out into the hoofs and guns of the storm. Subject(s): Lincoln Park, Chicago; Statues BRONZES: 2, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cross lincoln park on a winter night when the snow Last Line: Hold them past midnight and into the dawn. Subject(s): Lincoln Park, Chicago; Statues CAMARGO, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carved marble face, enraptured secret smile Last Line: Knowing the soul is born in sensual strife. Subject(s): Ballet; Camargo, Marie Anne De (1710-70); Dancing & Dancers; Statues CAPITAL SQUARE, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Danger is silent in the bloodless square Last Line: Harden and echo at a statue's voice. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Statues CARYATID, by ELENI Z. AUERBACH Poem Source First Line: In spaces strewn, the masks Last Line: Hair picked by wind %she leaps Subject(s): Caryatids; Statues; Stones CHILD AND HER STATUE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your living glass is this unpolished stone Last Line: Imprisoned in the stone, will still be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Statues CODA, OVERTURE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark Last Line: Of hoofs trampling the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): History; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Statues; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks CONCERNING JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race Last Line: Never a true crown but thy crown of thorn! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Jesus Christ; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Statues; Truth DANCE TO BAAL, by FELIX KOWALEWSKI Poem Text First Line: With lithe young body sheathed in cloth-of-gold Last Line: To greet her lord in virgin arrogance! Subject(s): Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Gold; Idols; Statues DEATH, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: From the bones of animals Last Line: Pomona %naked and laughing Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Statues ELEPHANT ROCK, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The huge weight / and granite shape of it Last Line: Ever known as the features of god Subject(s): Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 1. THE GARGOYLE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT Poem Text First Line: Who carved that little gargoyle? Last Line: And sometimes think of me? Subject(s): Statues EQUESTRIAN STATUE, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Motion stays suspended here Last Line: Clear in the heavnely cold! Subject(s): Statues FEMALE FIGURE IN GLASS WITH COPPER WIRE (6 X 6 ), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Girdled by copper filament stopped Last Line: Gaze lifted to an absent sun, she satisfies Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Saint Kilda (scotland); Statues FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among their graven shapes to whom Last Line: The lines of halleck's name. Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867); New York City - 19th Century; Statues; Writing & Writers FOR A STATUE OF LOVE, by VOLTAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er you are, your master see Last Line: He is, he was, or is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie Subject(s): Art & Artists; Statues FOR A STONE GIRL AT SANCHI, by GARY SYNDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half asleep on the cold grass Subject(s): India; Statues FOR THE 'MOUCHE', by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream. It was a summer's night Last Line: And I awoke at last in desperation. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Mythology; Religion; Statues; Nightmares; Theology FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN, by CATE MARVIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you known the roar of an estranging city Subject(s): Heads; Statues; City & Town Life FUTILE QUESTION, by DEZSO TANDORI Poem Source First Line: Why does he stand there, this short penguin Last Line: The real question: what could he do instead? Subject(s): Animals; Penguins; Picture Books; Statues GEORGE ELIOT (SUGGESTED BY UNVEILING OF A STATUE TO GEORGE SAND), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thee we carve no statue: thou hast willed Last Line: Still pass the 'cup of strength' from hand to hand. Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880); Sand, George (1804-1876); Statues; Evans, Mary Ann; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant GOD'S MEASUREMENTS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: As incense smoke thins, a stupendous Last Line: To the one diabutsu...Oh, look! The whole halo %is shimmering, dancing before our eyes! Subject(s): Japan; Statues GREETINGS, by SUSAN LASHER Poem Source First Line: As if one of the humbler statues %in the park - robert burns, schubert Last Line: Order, and the million forms of farewell Subject(s): Farewell; Greetings; Language; Parks; Statues HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: AT THE COTTAGE OF MESSER VIOLI, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mailbox, painted dark blue Last Line: The neighbor's lawn, plaster deer %with real bullet holes in them Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Statues HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE LOUNGE AT THE PHYSICIAN'S GUILD, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The standing nudes and odalisques Last Line: Until a noteworthy physician arrived %and a paler otis was fully revived Subject(s): Art And Artists; Drawing; Museums; Statues HENRY MOORE'S STATUE AT LINCOLN CENTER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After listening to durufle's requiem Last Line: Of shapes which refuse to explain. Subject(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); New York City; Statues; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HERMIONE ON SIMULACRA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For comfort I became a stone Last Line: Whose visage so resembles me Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Statues; Stones HYMN FOR THE INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF .. ANDREW HINGHAM, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the shape our eyes have known! Last Line: A nation claims him as her own! Subject(s): Statues I STAND IN THE WARMTH OF A MAN'S HAND, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Snow white: %I stand in the warmth of a man's hand Last Line: And feel the hard pelvis through my soft hip Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones IN SIMON; CATERER FOR FASHIONABLE SUPPER-PARTIES, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear simon! Prince of pastry-cooks Last Line: And bid them twine your bust with roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; New York City - 19th Century; Parties; Statues IN THE MUSEUM AT TEHERAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sentimental curator has placed Last Line: I'm happy now I'm happy oh don't %move don't go away Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Teheran, Iran INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone. Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INSCRIPTIONS: 2. FOR A STATUE OF CHAUCER AT WOODSTOCK, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such was old chaucer: such the placid Last Line: To tame the rudeness of his native land. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Statues ISAIAH OF SOUILLAC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why the prophet is dancing the sculptor knew. If Last Line: Upon them, dance, dance, and still to the same song Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones IT WAS SUNDAY IN THE FAIR EARS OF MY BURRO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I mean my tremulous patriotic hairdo Subject(s): Festivals; Peru; Statues ITALIAN QUATRAIN: STATUE OF ST. PETER, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This shining bronze is peter's living toe Last Line: Thou who denied! Great saint, deny not these! Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Statues JOHN DONNE'S STATUE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He threw the shroud about his head Subject(s): Statues LAST OF THE AZTECS, by JOSE LEON DEL VALLE Poem Source First Line: Oh, not for thee the pastoral flute's soft notes Last Line: Neath the black feathers of thy royal plume! Subject(s): Aztecs; History; Statues LETTER TO STATUES, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The taxi halts before a pale museum Subject(s): Statues LINCOLN, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I mused by lincoln's statue on the square Last Line: Ring out his eulogy in silver songs. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Praise; Presidents, United States; Statues LINES ON THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF THE RIGHT HON. JOHN BRIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven years have fled since on thy honoured clay Last Line: Inspire, sustain thy well-loved parliament! Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Statues LITTLE MARBLE BOY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To catch a white fish Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Statues LITTLE MARBLE BOY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In an everlasting gesture %to catch a white fish Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Statues MADONNA OF THE POMEGRANATE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd the blue triangle of the madonna Last Line: Or says goodbye because he will live forever Subject(s): Statues MARBLE PROPHECY, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The harlequins are out in force today Subject(s): Statues METAMOPHOSES: PYGMALION AND THE STATUE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life Last Line: The city paphos, from the founder call'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pygmalion; Statues; Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting MILTON AT CRIPPLEGATE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Me milton fain by cripplegate behold Last Line: Quick in quotation on free lips I live. Subject(s): Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); Statues; Liberty NARCISSUS: A POMPEIIAN BRONZE, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful boy, like a faun here in loneliness roaming, who art thou? Last Line: Stranger, I tremble,anew, thou a narcissus shalt be. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pompeii, Italy; Statues NATURE SCULPTURE IN THE ANDES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The seething random rain, the scraping ice Last Line: By the smooth giant ankle Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones NIOBE, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Niobe %was changed into stone Last Line: The way the devil reads the bible, said the devil Subject(s): Archeology; Niobe; Statues; Stones NUTHATCH SITTING ON A BEAR'S NOSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Really just a small cast iron representation Subject(s): Cemeteries; Statues; Graveyards O'CONNELL'S STATUE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chisel the likeness of the chief Last Line: If to man you'd change the stone. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; O'connell, Daniel (1775-1847); Statues ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 3, by DOUGLAS GARMAN Poem Text First Line: Set up the statue: dull and staid Last Line: Another civic statue's made. Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Honor; Statues; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron ODE TO THE LITTLE CHINA MAN, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who art thou-sweet little china man? Last Line: I'm miss eliza's beau! Subject(s): China; Men; Statues ON A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BEAU MARSH; BETWEEN BUSTS NEWTON AND POPE, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal newton never spoke Last Line: "but folly at full length." Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of Variant Title(s): On Mr. Nash's Present Of His Own Picture Subject(s): Fools; Statues; Idiots ON A TORSO OF CUPID, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peach trees and judas trees Last Line: Thou has a heart to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Cupid; Italy; Statues; Eros; Italians ON AN UNFINISHED STATUE BY MICHAEL ANGELO, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What beauteous form beneath a marble veil Last Line: With barren husks and harvesting of dreams. Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues ON KNOCKING OVER MY GLASS WHILE READING SHARON OLDS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The milk spread, %a translucent stain Last Line: To refill my glass %with her wild and holy blood Subject(s): Convents; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Praise; Prayer; Statues; Women - Bible ON MICHAEL ANGELO'S STATUE OF NIGHT: LINES BY GIOVANNI STROZZI, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA STROZZI Poem Text First Line: Thou seest the sleeping night in grace reclining Last Line: Speak low, I pray thee, wake me not to pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Strozzi, Giovanni Battista ,the Elde Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks ON SEEING THE BUSTS OF NEWTON, LOCKE, AND OTHERS, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Louis the living learned fed Subject(s): Statues ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hearest thou not the pipe of faunus, sweeping Last Line: By music and enchantment all surrounded. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Greece; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Statues; Greeks ON THE STATUE OF AN ANGEL, BY BIENAIME, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who can look on that celestial face Last Line: There lives within him an immortal part! Subject(s): Statues ON THE STATUE OF BACCHANTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Restrain that bacchante! Ere the marble maid Last Line: "leaps from the shrine, and seeks the forest glade" Subject(s): Mythology - Greek;statues ON THE STATUE OF CLEOPATRA, MADE INTO A FOUNTAIN BY LEO X, by BALDASSARRE CASTIGLIONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art whom this fair statue Last Line: Whose shining scene with rich hesperia vies. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Fountains; Statues ON THE STATUE OF EBENEZER ELLIOTT BY NEVILLE BURNARD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory to those who give it! Who erect Last Line: Here they have met; may neither say farewell! Subject(s): Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849); Statues ON THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES I AT CHARING CROSS, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the first charles does here in triumph. Last Line: Loud as the trumpet of surviving fame Subject(s): Art And Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Statues ON THE STATUE OF LORD BYRON (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange that I, who haply might have met Last Line: So still, so calm, so purely beautiful! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Statues; Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Thorwaldsen, Bertel ON THE STATUE OF LORD BYRON (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And near thee hands a page, in boyhodd penn'd Last Line: Shares our fond gaze between itself and thee. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Statues; Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Thorwaldsen, Bertel ON VIEWING A STATUE OF DAVID, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the shepherd boy who slung the stone Last Line: The king is dead, immortal stands the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Statues; Judaism ONE OF OUR PRESIDENTS, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sits there on the low, rude, backless bench Last Line: "I thought, ""thank god, thank god the ship rides true!" Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues ONE OF THE SIGNERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O storied vale of merrimac Last Line: These sculptured lips shall not be dumb! Subject(s): Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795); Physicians; Statues; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence; Doctors OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence OZYMANDIAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In egypt's sandy silence, all alone Last Line: Once dwelt in that annihilated place. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): On A Stupendous Leg Of Granite Subject(s): Egypt; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Transience; Vanity; Impermanence PAX ANIMAE, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Speak not a word of wild, blaspheming grief! Last Line: Infinite pity spreads its hue of white Subject(s): Art And Artists; Death; Poetry And Poets; Silence; Statues PIAZZA, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: The piazza backs on a palace in the center Last Line: Follow the cold war to the telephone. %phone the acrobats Subject(s): Fountains; Statues PIGEONS, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: On the crooked arm of columbus, on his cloak Last Line: Appropriately on the head of each is perched, %as though forever, his appointed pigeon Subject(s): Pigeons; Statues PLUTARCH, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: Chaeronean plutarch, to thy deathless praise Last Line: Their lives have parallels, but thine has none. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Praise; Statues POEM OF JACOBUS SADOLETUS ON THE STATUE OF LAOCOON, by JACOPO SADOLETO Poem Source First Line: From heaped-up mound of earth and from the heart Last Line: Or pride or wealth or empty luxury Subject(s): Art And Artists; Statues PORTRAIT OF JOSE CEMI [FROM THE NOVEL PARADISO], by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source First Line: No combat did he unleash, as panting Last Line: Between a column of air and the sacrificial stone Subject(s): Portraits; Statues; Stones PROTUS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among these latter busts we count by scores Last Line: To give you the crown-grasper. What a man! Subject(s): Decay; Statues; Rome, Italy; Rot; Decadence PUZZLEMENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crescent brow - aquiver thrown Last Line: Such impudence of sweet persiflage! Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical; Ruins; Statues READY TO KILL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten minutes now I have been looking at this Last Line: Ready to run the red blood and slush the bowels of men all over the sweet new grass of the prairie. Subject(s): Statues; World War I; First World War REPLICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fake parthenon in nashville, stonehenge reduced by a quarter Last Line: Everything of which there's one only in the form of its only maker. Subject(s): Life; Reproduction; Statues; Mating RUINED STATUES IN THE LOUVRE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Infant love left his palm print on this aphrodite's naked back Last Line: Against each other in their tombs-for the hundredth time or so %that day, you let my hand go Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Louvre, Paris; Statues; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States SATIE: TROIS MELODIES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frog on the tumbler-game in the park Subject(s): Trees; Statues; Time SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues SOMOZA UNVEILS THE STATUE OF SOMOZA IN SOMOZA STADIUM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: It's not that I think the people erected this statue Last Line: I erected this statue because I knew you would hate it Subject(s): Human Rights; Statues; Tyranny And Tyrants SONNET: ISLES OF SCILLY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw narcissus in a portico Last Line: Stampeding by the lone scillonian isles. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Sicily; Statues SPANISH LIONS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guarding the doors of the hispanic society Last Line: Not even the bas-relief of rosinante, %posed with his knightastride, on the opposite wall Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Statues SPARROW SHELTERING UNDER A COLUMN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conceived first by whom? By the greeks perfected Last Line: And that, though perhaps cold, he is at home there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Scholarship And Scholars; Statues SPOKEN BY VENUS ON SEEING HER STATUE DONE BY PRAXITELES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "anchises, paris, and adonis too," Last Line: But where has this praxiteles been prying? Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.);statues STATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two boards with a token roof, backed Last Line: At first light would get up and go on Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Hiking; Statues; Stones; Travel STATUE AND BIRDS, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind Last Line: Fails on her breast Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Statues STATUE AND BIRDS, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind Last Line: Fails on her breast Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Statues STATUE OF A LITTLE HURT BOY, by SCOTT HORTON Poem Text First Line: That statue of a small boy, jo, do you Last Line: Were hard and flinty like that boy of stone. Subject(s): Children; Statues; Childhood STATUES, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They more than we are what we are Last Line: We love, that they may be, %they are, that we may know Subject(s): Statues STATUES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These children playing at statues fill Last Line: Stares at the image of his kingdom come Subject(s): Statues STATUES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These children playing at statues fill Last Line: Into an adamantine shapelessness, %stares at the image of his kingdom come Subject(s): Statues STATUES IN THE PARK, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of you yesterday Last Line: Forever begging for just one more day Subject(s): Statues STATUES IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone at the end of green allees, alone Last Line: For a figleaf fallen from the withered tree Subject(s): Statues STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl of the musing mouth Last Line: As I, unblest Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Statues; Girls; Time STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing Subject(s): Cities; Statues; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing Last Line: Then goes his way with all his fancy free Subject(s): Cities; Statues SWORDLESS STATUE (THOMAS BALL'S 'WASHINGTON'), by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A starling sits on the general's hat Last Line: If any child can steal a sword %from the general, riding there Subject(s): Statues THE AMAZON (COPY OF A STATUE BY POLYCLITUS OF ARGOS, 5TH CENTURY B.C.), by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This marble is a dream of woman grown Last Line: Her body into growth, but not her wit! Subject(s): Amazons; Statues; Women THE APHRODITE OF PRAXITELES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Shame! Cypris cries her statue when she sees Last Line: "you saw me naked! When, praxiteles?" Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.);statues THE BAMBERGER REITER, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night there came to her the great Last Line: The fiery god spoke, “yes. You.” and she'd come through Subject(s): Statues THE BRONZE BUDDHA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: On the lotus blossom the buddha is sitting Last Line: Of stillness and dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Buddhism; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists THE BRONZE STATUE OF NAPOLEON, by AUGUSTE BARBIER Poem Text First Line: The work is done! The spent flame burns no more Last Line: And bear upon their backs the stones! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Statues; War THE BURNS STATUE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see Last Line: In fear of not getting such a beautiful statue after they die. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dundee, Scotland; Monuments; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE CHRIST OF ARGENTINE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: O, blood-red races, lift your eyes Last Line: With christ of argentine! Subject(s): Argentina; Chile; Peace; Statues; War THE CHRIST OF PANAMA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the heart of the world Last Line: Set we the image of christ! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Panama Canal; Peace; Statues; Canal Zone THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day. Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE COLLEGE ATHLETE, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Statue-like standeth he forth, quick, elate Last Line: Such as hath given martyrs mortal birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Athletes; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues THE COLOSSI OF THE PLAIN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient of days! Before the trojan wars Last Line: Helpless beneath heaven's penetrating smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Statues THE DUKE OF YORK'S STATUE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enduring is the bust of bronze Last Line: And raised thee up to where thou art. Subject(s): Statues; York, Frederick Augustus, Duke Of THE DYING INDIAN, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dart of izdabel prevails! 'twas dipped / in double poison Last Line: I go! Great copac beckons me! Farewell! Subject(s): Death; Poisons And Poisoning; Statues; Dead, The THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well done! The statue, on its base of granite Last Line: Still sit supremely, and survive the storm! Subject(s): Honor; Presidents, United States; Statues; Washington, George (1732-1799) THE FIGHT OVER THE NEWMAN STATUE IN OXFORD, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is bigotry the order of the day? Last Line: One universal faith! One hope! One heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Oxford University; Religious Discrimination; Statues; Religious Conflict THE FUNERAL GENIUS; AN ANCIENT STATUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shouldst be looked on when the starlight Last Line: When living light hath touched the brow of death? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Statues; Burials THE HAND OF LINCOLN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on this cast, and know the hand Last Line: The thought that bade a race be free! Subject(s): Hands; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues THE HAS-BEEN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stone face higher than six horses stood five thousand Last Line: Clutch a secret. Subject(s): Statues THE LORDS' MASQUE: FOUR STATUES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, see, prometheus, four of these first dames Last Line: Let orpheus deck thy hymn, since pray we must. Subject(s): Statues THE MAD SCULPTOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far up in the quarry / I hewed a stone for pure delight Last Line: And reaches me his hands! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE MADONNA OF THE PLAINS, by HONORA CARROLL HURD Poem Text First Line: Bronzed by the western sun, and wind Last Line: Left peace, and patience, touched with dauntless grace. Subject(s): Statues THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE TORSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In clay the statue stood complete Last Line: The ruined sculptor's monument. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Life; Patience; Statues; Optimism THE SPHINX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know all about the sphinx Last Line: She was just cut out for that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Silence; Sphinx; Statues; Nightmares THE STATUE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That I might chisel a statue, line on line Last Line: Enough, enough! We know thy statue's name!' Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues THE STATUE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First fashioned in the artist's brain Last Line: That heaven reveals to earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Silence; Statues THE STATUE AND THE BUST, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a palace in florence, the world knows well Last Line: How strive you? De te, fabula! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Statues THE STATUE AT CHARING CROSSE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be the mystery why charing crosse Last Line: To behold ev'ry day such a court, such a son. Subject(s): Charing Cross, London; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Osborne, Thomas. 1st Earl Of Danby; Statues THE STATUE OF A LIBERTINE, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've chosen this title not only because I like it Last Line: Detonates the very tip Subject(s): Statues THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This statue of liberty, busy man Last Line: In the dens of vice had died. Subject(s): Statues THE STATUE OF SHERMAN BY ST. GAUDENS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the soldier brave enough to tell Last Line: And rides through hell to save his country's life. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): Saint-gauden's Statue Of General Sherman Subject(s): Saint Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); Soldiers; Statues THE STATUE TO PYGMALION, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaze on! I thrill beneath thy gaze Last Line: Great jove! I love, and therefore live. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Kisses; Mythology; Statues THE STATUES AND THE TEAR, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night a fountain pleads Last Line: Lean on and hate, watching it, eye to eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Enemies; Statues THE STATUES IN THE MUSEUM, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Statues of fauns and wrestlers Last Line: Who do not know. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Wellesley College; Art Gallerys THE STATUES IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone at the end of green allees, alone Subject(s): Statues THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, by SOAME JENYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her own isle's remotest grove Last Line: And steer by chloe's eyes. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Temples; Venus (goddess); Mosques THE TEPIDARIUM, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Myrrh sweetens all their supple limbs; they muse Last Line: Sleek and untrammelled round her bust of bronze. Subject(s): Statues THE UNFINISHED WORK, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: The crowd was gone, and to the side Last Line: And sank beside him on the bench. Subject(s): Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues; Liberty THE VENUS OF MILO, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No live girl's body hath such pride impassioned Last Line: Into the squalid vortex of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand Subject(s): Beauty; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Venus De Milo TO A FRAGMENT OF A STATUE OF HERCULES, COMMONLY CALLED THE TORSO, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And dost thou still, thou mass of breathing stone Last Line: To draw down gods, and lift the soul to heaven! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Statues TO A GREEK MARBLE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pótuia, pótuia / white grave goddess Last Line: Thou hearest me not Subject(s): Statues; Solitude; Loneliness TO AN UNKNOWN BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who were you once? Could we but guess Last Line: Forgotten more profoundly! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Statues; Art Gallerys TO THE EGYPTIAN LADY SENNUWY, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: With that same smile, scornful and sad and tender Last Line: If beauty alwys is truth, after all. Subject(s): Beauty; Egypt; Sennuwy, Princess (wife Of Hepzefa); Statues TO THE STATUE ON THE CAPITOL; LOOKING EASTWARD AT DAWN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Source First Line: What sunken splendor in the eastern skies Last Line: Whose savage garments from thy shoulders fly, %whose eagle clings in sunrise to thy crest! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Crawford, Thomas (1814-1857); Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues TOM REED'S SCHOOL DAYS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Tis often said and sung in prose and rhyme Last Line: Renown's endowment to the ages trust. Subject(s): Reed, Thomas Brackett (1839-1902); Statues TOUCH-AND-GO, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing praise for statuary: Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Statues TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TWIN STATUES OF AMENOPHIS III AT THEBES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thousands of years Last Line: "and placed them hereto last as long as heaven." Subject(s): Statues; Thebes, Greece; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips ULYSSES BUILDS HIS BED, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE Poem Text First Line: Glorious ulysses, returned from the war Last Line: And the enraptured mothers smile. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Statues; Stones; Ulysses; Walls; Granite; Rocks; Odysseus UPON SIR ROBERT VYNER'S SETTING UP THE KINGS-STATUE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As cityes that to the fierce conqueror yield Last Line: Yet we'd better by far have him than his brother. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Statues VANDALS SACK DENMARK, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: A melancholy dane is she Last Line: Whose heads are hollower than hers Subject(s): Denmark; Statues VILLANELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She stood pale and correct Last Line: As I well recollect. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Statues WHITE STATUE, by THIRZA J. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Since first I gazed at your unshrinking form Last Line: That I, like you, may be unfeeling too. Subject(s): Statues YOUNG FLORENTINE SCULPTOR, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: She wants to carve Last Line: No man built Subject(s): Homosexuality; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues |
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