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Subject: THEOCRITUS (310-250 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS, IN WINTER, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Leave the smoke, the wealth, the roar
Last Line: Where breaks the blue sicilian sea!
Subject(s): Theocritus (310-250 B.c.); Winter


FOR A COPY OF THEOCRITUS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O singer of the field and fold
Last Line: Thine was the happier age of gold
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Theocritus (310-250 B.c.)


ON A NIGHTINGALE IN APRIL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow moon is a dancing phantom
Last Line: O moon-white maid!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): April; Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.)


THEOCRITUS, by MARY CAUGHEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not of war, nor of tears did he
Last Line: That haunt the flowers underneath those trees.
Subject(s): Theocritus (310-250 B.c.)


THEOCRITUS, by CHARLES HARTLEY LANGHORNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Theocritus! Theocritus! Ah, thou hadst pleasant dreams
Last Line: Theocritus! Theocritus! What pleasant dreams were thine!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.)


THEOCRITUS; A VILLANELLE, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O singer of persephone
Last Line: Dost thou remember sicily?
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Theocritus (310-250 B.c.)


THEOCRITUS; FOR A. LANG'S TRANSLATION, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poplars and the ancient elms
Last Line: The tomb of helice.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.)


TO THEOCRITUS, by HELEN MURIEL MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Theocritus, thou singer of old greece
Last Line: Thou foundest for greek shepherds on the hills.
Subject(s): Theocritus (310-250 B.c.); Wellesley College


WILD COREOPSIS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sea of blossoms, golden as the glow
Last Line: Theocritus amid the asphodels!
Subject(s): Flowers; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.)