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Subject: TANTALUS (GREEK MYTHOLOGY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "I PRITHEE, LEAVE ME", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: But thus in heaven tormented
Subject(s): Hearts;tantalus (greek Mythology)


CINDER-FRUIT, by PAUL JEAN TOULET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the apple fruit
Last Line: It is ashen.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Passion; Tantalus (greek Mythology)


EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve
Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery


SACRED EPIGRAM: THE MAN PLACED NEAR THE POOL OF BETHSEDA, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What new tantalus here leans toward the receding waves
Last Line: Whence [comes] this fortunate shipwreck? And healing storms?%and life, which a precious tempest has
Subject(s): Tantalus (greek Mythology)