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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ULYSSES Matches Found: 235 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER TWENTY YEARS, by JENNIFER MACKENZIE Poem Source First Line: When odysseus built his bridal bed Last Line: The shuttle weaves the cloth Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Time; Ulysses AMBITION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't always think penelope Last Line: Drunken war. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Valor; Bravery; Odysseus APPOMATTOX; ON THE DEATH OF GRANT, by BENJAMIN DAVENPORT HOUSE Poem Source First Line: To peace-white ashes sunk war's lurid flame Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History ARGUS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wise ulysses, from his native coast Last Line: Own'd his returning lord, look'd up, and dy'd! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus AT A DINNER TO GENERAL GRANT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When treason first began the strife Last Line: Our nation found its man! Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) CALYPSO TO ULYSSES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there were any room within my heart Last Line: Than you an aging man's concupiscence. Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus CALYPSO'S ISLAND, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know very well, goddess, she is not beautiful Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus CALYPSO'S ISLAND, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know very well, goddess, she is not beautiful Last Line: Where that one wears the sunlight for a while Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses CAN'T, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How history repeats itself Last Line: The steadfast man whose name was grant. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) CANTO 1, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: And then went down to the ship Variant Title(s): The Odyssey: Book 11 (homer) Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus CANTO 1, by EZRA POUND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then went down to the ship Last Line: Girdles and breast bands, thou with dark eyelids %bearing the golden bough of argicida. So that Variant Title(s): The Odyssey: Book 11 (homer Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Ulysses CHATTANOOGA (NOVEMBER, 1863), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A kindling impulse seized the host Last Line: And death a starry night. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chattanooga Campaign; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History CIRCE, DID YOU?, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: Circe, like those siren sisters you warned of Last Line: Circe, blown away Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Ulysses DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one by one withdraw the lofty actors Last Line: To admiration has it been enacted! Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) DIDO'S CLOSING ARGUMENT, by ROBERT THOMAS Poem Source First Line: You look ridiculous in that armor. Your pink flesh Last Line: I am my story. A burning scarf, a molten chalice, ashes %of a damask rose Subject(s): Aeneas; History; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vase was made of clay Last Line: Out of the sky into montana... Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GENERAL GRANT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong, simple, silent are the steadfast laws Variant Title(s): On A Bust Of General Gran Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) GRANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we say of the soldier Last Line: And the driving rain of a nation's tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heroism; Soldiers; Swords; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines GRANT AT REST, by JOHN JAMES MEEHAN Poem Source First Line: Not like the tombs where sleep egyptian kings Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) IN MEMORY OF GENERAL GRANT, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White wings of commerce sailing far Last Line: In every clime, to every age. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) ITHACA, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a hall of doors Last Line: My galoshes had small brass clamps Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ITHACA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of wisdom and endurance rare Last Line: Rest, care-worn mortal, rest, and let his sleep be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Variant Title(s): The Return Of Ulysses Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus KALYPSO PUTS FIVE QUESTIONS TO ODYSSEUS, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I gave you the tallest of my trees Last Line: Or why you are always watching the sea? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses KILLING OF THE WOOERS, THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 12, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then odysseus of many counsels stripped him of his rags Last Line: And a sweet longing came on him to weep and moan, for he remembered them every one Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses LEE'S PAROLE, by MARION MANVILLE Poem Text First Line: Well, general grant, have you heard the news? Last Line: Preserved the north in the south's parole. Alternate Author Name(s): Pope, Marion Manville, Mrs. Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise Last Line: Make sweet the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus ODYSSEUS, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: For twenty years I was gone on that journey Last Line: Stranded on the shores of my own imaginings Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS AND DEMODOCUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But now a herald, leading the bard beloved, drew near Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS AND EURYCLEIA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the old nurse took a basin of brass bright-glittering Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS AND HIS FATHER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now hermes of cyllene called to the world beyond Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS AND HIS SON, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then close at hand came athene. A woman now seemed she Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE MEET, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then the old dame went up to the upper chamber, laughing loud Last Line: Athene hid them in night, and swiftly ked them forth from the city Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS HEARS ABOUT DEATH OF AGAMEMNON, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Afterward, soon as the chaste persephone hither and thither Last Line: Not in the light; since faith can be placed in woman no longer Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS REVEALS HIMSELF TO HIS FATHER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All this haste made not his staid faith so free Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS SUMMONS THE GHOSTS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poured we libations unto each the dead Last Line: And set my oar up, that I swung amid fellows Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS' MOTHER SPEAKS TO HIM IN HADES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither did the keen-sighted archer goddess assail me in my halls Last Line: And for thy tender-heartedness, that robbed me of honey-sweet life Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS' RETURN TO ITHACA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the noble odysseus wakened, once more on his native ground Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS'S SECRET, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At first he thought only of home, and penelope Last Line: As if his beloved were all that ever mattered Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS: IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR GRIFFITH, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You had the prose of logic and of scorn Last Line: Your memory be the flame upon our hills Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEUS; FOR GEORGE KIRSTEIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Always the setting forth was the same Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus ODYSSEUS; FOR GEORGE KIRSTEIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always the setting forth was the same Last Line: Was the one he kept sailing home to Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY, by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But where athene saw the swineherd gone Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But still I stayed there, till my mother came Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That moment, fainting as he touched the shore Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: AGAMEMNON TO ACHILLES, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The danaans wept for you, achilles, gathering round Last Line: Men at sea will mark it from a great distance Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 1, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide Last Line: Therewith he led the way, and pallas athene followed Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. A GODDESS INTERVENES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing in me, muse, and through me tell the story Last Line: He took in thought the course althena gave him Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. ATHENA INSPIRES THE PRINCE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing to me of the man, muse, the man of twists and turns Last Line: He weighed in his mind the course athena charted Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. THEME, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, o muse, of the man so wary and wise, who in far lands Last Line: Sing - whence-ever the lay - sing zeus born goddess, for us too! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 10, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then we came to the isle aeolian, where dwelt aeolus Last Line: Who may behold a god against his will, whether going to or fro? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 10, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. THE BEWITCHING QUEEN OF AEAEA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We reached the aeolian island next, the home of aeolus Last Line: Who wants to be invisible gliding here and there? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. THE GRACE OF THE WITCH, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We made our landfall on aiolia island Last Line: Unless she wished his mortal eyes aware? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 11, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now when we had gone down to the ship and to the sea Last Line: Wave of flood bore the barque down the stream of oceanus, we rowing first, and afterwards the fair w Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. A GATHERING OF SHADES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We bore down on the ship at the sea's edge Last Line: First under oars, then with a following wind Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. THE KINGDOM OF THE DEAD, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now down we came to the ship at the water's edge Last Line: Sped by our rowing first, then by a fresh fair wind Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 12, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now after the ship had left the stream of the river oceanus Last Line: And it liketh me not twice to tell a plain-told tale Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 12. SEA PERILS AND DEFEAT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ship sailed on, out of the ocean stream Last Line: With tiresome repetition of a story Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 12. THE CATTLE OF THE SUN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now when our ship had left the ocean river rolling in her wake Last Line: To repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 13, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. ATHENA ACCOSTS ODYSSEUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So he spake; but the grey-eyed, the goddess athene, smiled and now Last Line: But this I know full surely, thou wert kind a while agone %while we sons of the achaeans by troy-tow Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. ITHACA AT LAST, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His tale was now over. The phaeacians all fell silent, hushed Last Line: To bring telemachus home from hallowed lacedaemon Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 14. HOSPITALITY IN THE FOREST, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He went up from the cove through wooded ground Last Line: Out of the wind and rain Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 14. THE LOYAL SWINEHERD, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So up from the haven now odysseus climbed a rugged path Last Line: A jutting crag that broke the north wind's blast Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 15. HOW THEY CAME TO ITHAKA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: South into lakedaimon Last Line: Slept under arms on duty for his masters Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 15. THE PRINCE SETS SAIL FOR HOME, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now south through the spacious dancing-rings of lacedaemon Last Line: Always the man to serve his masters well Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 16. FATHER AND SON, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But there were two men in the mountain hut Last Line: They turned to bed and took the gift of sleep Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 16. FATHER AND SON, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As dawn came into the lodge, the king and loyal swineherd Last Line: They remembered bed and took the gift of sleep Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 17, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such speech they changed: when in the yard there lay Last Line: That once is sun-burnt with the servile day.' Subject(s): Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 17. STRANGER AT THE GATES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When young dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more Last Line: The day was over. Dusk was falling fast Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 17. THE BEGGAR AT THE MANOR, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the young dawn came bright into the east Last Line: Of dance and song, as day waned into evening Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 18. BLOWS AND A QUEEN'S BEAUTY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now a true scavenger came in -- a public tramp Last Line: They trailed off homeward drowsily to bed Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 18. THE BEGGAR-KING OF ITHACA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now along this tramp, this public nuisance Last Line: And went their ways to bed, each suitor to his house Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 19. PENELOPE AND HER GUEST, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That left the great odysseus waiting in his hall Last Line: Till watchful athena sealed her eyes with welcome sleep Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 19. RECOGNITIONS AND A DREAM, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now by athena's side in the quiet hall Last Line: Cast sweet sleep upon her eyes Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 2, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 2. A HERO'S SON AWAKENS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When primal dawn spread on the eastern sky Last Line: Most of all to the grey-eyed daughter of zeus Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 2. TELEMACHUS SETS SAIL, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When young dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more Last Line: And the shop went plunging all night long and through the dawn Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 20. PORTENTS GATHER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Off in the entrance-hall the great king made his bed Last Line: For they'd been first to plot their vicious crimes Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 20. SIGNS AND A VISION, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside in the entry way he made his bed Last Line: Whose treachery had filled that house with pain Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 21. ODYSSEUS STRINGS HIS BOW, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The time had come. The goddess athena with her blazing eyes Last Line: His bronze spearpoint glinting now like fire ... Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 21. THE TEST OF THE BOW, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon penelope, most worn in love and thought Last Line: Stood by his chair, in the forefront near his father Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 22. DEATH IN THE GREAT HALL, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now shrugging off his rags the wiliest fighter of the islands Last Line: And overcome by longing and by tears Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 22. SLAUGHTER IN THE HALL, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now stripping back his rags odysseus master of craft and battle Last Line: Deep in his heart he knew them one and all Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 23. THE GREAT ROOTED BED, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up to the rooms the old nurse clambered, chuckling all the way Last Line: Quickly led the four men out of town Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 23. THE TRUNK OF THE OLIVE TREE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old nurse went upstairs exulting Last Line: Going before them swiftly from the town Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. PEACE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now cyllenian hermes called away the suitors' ghosts Last Line: Yes, but the goddess still kept mentor's build and voice Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. WARRIORS, FAREWELL, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Meanwhile the suitors' ghosts were called away Last Line: Though still she kept the form and voice of mentor Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. KING NESTOR REMEMBERS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the sun sprang up, leaving the brilliant waters in its wake Last Line: As the sun sank and the roads of the world grew dark Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. THE LORD OF THE WESTERN APPROACHES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea Last Line: The sun went down and all the roads grew dark Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 4, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 4. THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPARTA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last they gained the ravines of lacedaemon ringed by hills Last Line: Here the achaeans lurked in ambush for the prince Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 4. THE RED-HAIRED KING AND HIS LADY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By vales and sharp ravines in lakedaimon Last Line: In ambush here that night the akhaians lay Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 5, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the dawn arose from her couch, and from the side of the lordly tithonus Last Line: That so it might soon release him from hksi weary travail, overshadowing his eyelids Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. ODYSSEUS - NYMPH AND SHIPWRECK, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate tithonus Last Line: Blessed sleep that sealed his eyes at last Subject(s): Disasters; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Shipwrecks; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. SWEET NYMPH AND OPEN SEA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn came up from the couch of her reclining Last Line: In quiet sleep she sealed his cherished eyes Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 6, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now when they were about to move for home Last Line: Alcinous, large of soul, to whom are given %the rule of the phaeacians and their power Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. THE PRINCESS AND THE STRANGER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So there he lay at rest, the storm-tossed great odysseus Last Line: The great odysseus till he reached his native land Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. THE PRINCESS AT THE RIVER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far gone in weariness, in oblivion Last Line: Until the kingly man came home to his own shore Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 7. GARDENS AND FIRELIGHT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As lord odysseus prayed there in the grove Last Line: Retired to rest where his dear consort lay Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 7. PHAEACIA'S HALLS AND GARDENS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now as odysseus, long an exile, prayed in athena's grove Last Line: Where the queen his wife arranged and shared their bed Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 8. A DAY FOR SONGS AND CONTESTS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When young dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more Last Line: The brother-in-arms who shares our inmost thoughts Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 8. THE SONGS OF THE HARPER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the opening fingers of the dawn Last Line: Can take a brother's place in our affection Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 9, SELS., by HOMER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 9, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And odysseus of many counsels answered him saying: king alchinous, most notable Last Line: Thence we sailed onward stricken at heart, yet glad as men saved from death, albeit we had lost our Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. IN THE ONE-EYED GIANT'S CAVE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Odysseus, the great teller of tales, launched out on his story Last Line: Yet sick at heart for the comrades we had lost Subject(s): Giants; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. NEW COASTS AND POSEIDON'S SON, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now this was the reply odysseus made Last Line: Having our precious lives, but not our friends Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: CALYPSO BIDS ULYSSES DEPART, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even a god could not help being charmed with such a lovely spot, so Last Line: You and punish you.' Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: CYCLOPS AND NO MAN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the noble juyce Last Line: And name deceiv'd him Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: DEMODOCUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This the divine expressor did so give Last Line: Deathlesse and manly; should stand so enclin'd Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Troy; Ulysses ODYSSEY: DEMODOCUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The minstrel stirred, and murmuring to the god Last Line: Seems fixed upon his heart. Break off the song! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Troy; Ulysses ODYSSEY: JOVE SENDS HERMES TO CALYPSO, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He ended, nor the argicide refus'd Last Line: A god from heav'n with wonder and delight Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: LAERTES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he found laertes alone on the tidy terrace, hoeing Last Line: And cradled like driftwood the bones of his dwindling father Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: LANDFALL, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two nights yet, and daies Last Line: To that wisht continent Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: MAN AND WIFE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now, eurynome had bath'd the king Last Line: So deare, to this wife, was her husband's sight Subject(s): Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: MARS AND VENUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mean-time the bard alternate to the strings Last Line: And unextinquish'd laughter shakes the sky Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: MERCURY IS SENT BY JUPITER TO CALYPSO, TO COMMAND ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus charg'd he; nor argicides denied Last Line: And so stood hermes' ravisht powres employd Variant Title(s): Hermes In Calypso's Islan Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: PENELOPE FETCHES ULYSSES' BOW, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And now the queene of women had intent Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: PENELOPE HESITATES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She turned then to descend the stair, her heart Last Line: Before long she will see and know me best Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses ODYSSEY: PENELOPE WEEPS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, many tales ulysses told his wife Last Line: Of bridling passion, he from issue saf't Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses ODYSSEY: PENELOPE WEEPS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now all these lies he made appear so truthful Last Line: Wept, if he willed to, inwardly Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses ODYSSEY: SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just then, forgetful of the strict command Last Line: In sign of hopeless mis'ry Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: THE BUTCHERS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he had made sure there were no survivors in his house Last Line: Where the residents are ghosts or images of the dead Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: THE FLIGHT OF THE WOOERS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now man-slaughtering pallas tooke in hand Last Line: The pavement boyling with the soules they reft Variant Title(s): The End Of The Suitor Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: THE GARDEN OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: THE GARDEN OF ALCINOUS, KING OF PHAECEA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Without the hall, and close upon the gate Last Line: The gods the court deckt of alcinous Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: THE PALACE AND GARDENS OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses, then, toward the palace moved Last Line: Of king alcinous by the gods bestowed Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: THE SHADE OF HIS MOTHER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sae she spak an I thocht lang in ma hairt Last Line: Haud in yir mind tae tell thaim tae yir wife Subject(s): Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: ULYSSES AND HIS MOTHER'S SPIRIT, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She thus; when I had great desire to prove Last Line: Will make a tale fit to be told thy wife Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: ULYSSES BUILDS HIS SHIP, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph turnd home. He fell to felling downe Last Line: His sailes exposd, and hoised. Off he gat Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ODYSSEY: ULYSSES RETURNS TO PENELOPE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will say what I think will be best,' answered ulysses. 'first wash and Last Line: Let us go to bed, that we may lie down and enjoy the blessed boon of %sleep Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses PENELOPE, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, ulysses, whither dost thou roam Last Line: Thou comest not, and I am tired and old. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Odysseus, the moon Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PENELOPE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have looked for you at the familiar center Last Line: Who in the dead thesis of voyage, avoids me. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Patience; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by LUCILLE EVANS Poem Source First Line: The wheel of years a score of times has spun Alternate Author Name(s): Stillwell, Evan Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PENELOPE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had heard from her several times during his long absence Last Line: Faithful to him, body and heart, as he was to her in his heart alone, alas Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had heard from her several times during his long absence Last Line: He stands there for a long time before letting himself plunge to %the bottom of her eyes Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pathway of the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War; Odysseus PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pathway of the sun Last Line: Bleach the linen for my bed %they will call him brave Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War PENELOPE ALIGNS THE LOOM, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: When he sailed here from helen's Last Line: That wake on their relectant travels back Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses PENELOPE MAKES TRIAL OF ODYSSEUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sat down opposite his wife on the seat he had left Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus PHILOCTETES, SELS., by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not from out of my own life but from the tradition Last Line: Will thank you. If you help the killer, you become him Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doors flapped open in ulysses' house Last Line: And winding road of the world was on his way Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses REUNION OF ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But her knees at his words were loosened and the heart within her breast Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses SAIL OF ULYSSES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shape of his sail, ulysses Last Line: Straight forward through another night %and clumped stars dangled all the way Variant Title(s): Presence Of An External Master Of Knowledg Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses SAILING OF ODYSSEUS FROM OGYGIA, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So then the noble odysseus with a fair wind off shore Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses SONG FROM THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the first soul, from earth, reached the immortals Last Line: Fear overcame them. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus TENTH FLOOR, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Odysseus, never been here Last Line: Before we vanish for good %and on time Subject(s): Egypt; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sphinx; Ulysses THE AGED STRANGER; AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with grant,' the stranger said Last Line: Some three years before the war. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) THE BOW OF ODYSSEUS, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but bitter toil and care! I never Last Line: That I her favourite playthings broke so soon? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE BURIAL OF GRANT; NEW YORK, AUGUST 8, 1885, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye living soldiers of the mighty war Last Line: And made it free and great. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); New York City - 19th Century THE DEATH OF GRANT, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Whose hard and cruel law / is part of thy compassion's plan Last Line: Thy servant's soul in paradise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE ILIAD: BOOK 10. THE NIGHT ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the chiefs before their vessels lay Last Line: And the crown'd goblet foams with floods of wine. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. MENELAUS AND ODYSSEUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then answer thus antenor sage return'd Last Line: Found none, to wonder at his noble form.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus THE LOTOS-EATERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land Last Line: O rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Lotus-eaters Subject(s): Lotus; Mythology - Classical; Rest; Ulysses; Lotos; Odysseus THE LOTUS-EATERS; ULYSSES TO PENELOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a far distant land they dwell Last Line: All things resting everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one that for a weary space has lain Last Line: The surge and thunder of the odyssey. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 1, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods in council sit, to call Last Line: About the task that pallas had design'd. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. MINERVA'S DESCENT TO ITHACA, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man, for wisdom's various arts renown'd Last Line: And in his raptured soul the vision glows. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses now relates to us Last Line: This way, or that bent; still his ways are free. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. ADVENTURES WITH AEOLUS, LAESTRYGONES, & CIRCE, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length we reach'd aeolia's sea-girt shore Last Line: "who eyes their motion? Who shall trace their way?" Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses' way to hell appears Last Line: Our oars and forewinds speedy passage gave. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. DESCENT INTO HELL, AND CONVERSATION WITH SHADES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the shores we bend, a mournful train Last Line: "sing through the shrouds, and stretch the swelling sails." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. ENCOUNTER WITH THE SHADE OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He spake, to whom I, answ'ring, thus replied Last Line: Than sov'reign empire hold o'er all the shades.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 12, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He shows from hell his safe retreat Last Line: "were past my free contentment to sustain." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 12. THE SIRENS; SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus o'er the rolling surge the vessel flies Last Line: "and what so tedious as a twice-told tale?" Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. ARRIVAL OF ULYSSES IN ITHACA, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear Last Line: To sparta flies, telemachus her care. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 14. THE MEETING AND CONVERSATION WITH EUMAEUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But he, deep-musing, o'er the mountains stray'd Last Line: Where, screen'd from boreas, high o'er-arch'd they lay. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 15. THE RETURN OF TELEMACHUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now had minerva reach'd those ample plains Last Line: And reach'd the mansion of his faithful swain. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 16. THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO TELEMACHUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the morning blush'd along the plains Last Line: And in soft sleep forgot the cares of day. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 17. TRAVELS OF TELEMACHUS; BEHAVIOR OF THE SUITORS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as aurora, daughter of the dawn Last Line: The sun obliquely shot his dewy ray. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 18. THE FIGHT BETWEEN ULYSSES AND IRUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While fix'd in thought the pensive hero sate Last Line: And, rushing forth, tumultuous reel away. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 19. THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO EURYCLEA, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consulting secret with the blue-eyed maid Last Line: And o'er her eyes ambrosial slumber shed. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 2, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Telemachus to court doth call Last Line: And all day long, their voyage did dispose. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 2. THE COUNCIL OF ITHACA; DEPARTURE OF TELEMACHUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now reddening from the dawn, the morning-ray Last Line: And end their voyage with the morning ray. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 20. MINERVA APPEARS AGAIN TO ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ample hide divine ulysses spread Last Line: A feast of death! The feasters doom'd to bleed! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 21. THE BENDING OF ULYSSES' BOW; OMEN FROM JUPITER, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pallas now to raise the rivals' fires Last Line: The beamy javelin lightens in his hand. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 22. DEATH OF SUITORS AND RECOGNITION OF ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then fierce the hero o'er the threshold strode Last Line: Ev'n he indulges the sweet joy of tears. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 23. INTERVIEW OF PENELOPE AND ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then to the queen, as in repose she lay Last Line: The latent warriors in a veil of clouds. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. ULYSSES VISITS HIS FATHER, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cyllenius now to pluto's dreary reign Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 3, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Telemachus, and heaven's wise dame Last Line: And shadows all ways through the earth were thrown. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. THE INTERVIEW OF TELEMACHUS AND NESTOR, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred sun, above the waters raised Last Line: And o'er the shaded landscape rush'd the night. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 4, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Received now in the spartan court Last Line: The wooers hoped to make their massacre. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 4. THE CONFERENCE OF TELEMACHUS WITH MENELAUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now proud sparta with their wheels resounds Last Line: And in close ambush wait the murderous deed. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A second court on jove attends Last Line: Quickly concluded in his closed eyes. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. THE DEPARTURE OF ULYSSES FROM CALYPSO, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron morn, with early blushes spread Last Line: Lull'd all his cares, and banish'd all his woes. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 6, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minerva in a vision stands Last Line: Till with his country shore he crown'd his peace. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. ULYSSES DISCOVERED BY NAUSICAE, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While thus the weary wanderer sunk to rest Last Line: Till great ulysses hail'd his native land. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 7, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nausicaa arrives in town Last Line: And by her lord reposed her reverend head. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 7. THE COURT OF ALCINOUS; RECEPTION OF ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The patient, heavenly man thus suppliant pray'd Last Line: And fast beside were closed arete's eyes. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 8, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The peers of the phaeacian state Last Line: True wisdom is, that blood and birth transcends. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 8. ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN TO ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fair aurora lifts her golden ray Last Line: "and claim'd by merit, not by blood, the heart?" Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 9, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses here is first made known Last Line: And yet had comfort since we lost no more. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. ADVENTURES OF THE CICONS, LOTOPHAGI AND CYCLOPS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then thus ulysses: 'thou whom first in sway Last Line: "glad for the living, for the dead in tears." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: THE BUTCHERS, by HOMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he had made sure there were no survivors in his house Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies Last Line: The people one, and one supplies the king. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE OLD SHIPS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep Last Line: And the whole deck put on its leaves again. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus THE RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see myself sometimes, an old man Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE SAIL OF ULYSSES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shape of his sail, ulysses Variant Title(s): Presence Of An External Master Of Knowledge Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As billows upon billows roll Last Line: Lee. Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History THE WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Odysseus TOWN AND HARBOR OF ITHACA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By another light surrounded Last Line: Where ulysses was the king. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus TWO TOWNS, by RALPH LINTON Poem Text First Line: There was a mighty city Last Line: Your fate is in their hands. Subject(s): Crete; Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Troy; Ulysses; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus ULYSSES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses was a rover, a roamer and a rover Last Line: The way that old ulysses used to do. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O ye, within one fire remaining two Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ULYSSES, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: Not yet is all my passion dead Last Line: The old pain and the old surmise. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Oxford University; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the much-tossed ulysses, never done Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the much-tossed ulysses, never done Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ULYSSES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Settled to evenings before the doorway Last Line: "go ask your mother penelope." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by JEANNE MCGAHEY Poem Source First Line: On the sea where only the tailed and chilly Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ULYSSES, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, whose oath in hollow hell is heard Last Line: Curtain Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: When I was growing up, I used to sail Last Line: And by the aching desire for life Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Landscape; Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Ulysses ULYSSES, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: I sailed, in the days of my youth Last Line: And a sorrowful love for all life Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ULYSSES, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: O sad ulysses in decline, seer Last Line: Pale dreamer of shipwrecks, %who loves you? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ULYSSES AND ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But as for thee Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ULYSSES AND THE SIREN, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, worthy greek, ulysses, come Last Line: T' undo, or be undone. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES AND THE SIREN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She spake; the morning on her golden throne Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses ULYSSES AND THE SIRENS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetch'd Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ulysses 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 ULYSSES GRANT, by RUTH WINSLOW GORDON Poem Text First Line: A village lad Last Line: Carved on the keystone of our unity. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) ULYSSES IN THE WAVES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This said; he (begging) gather'd clouds Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ULYSSES RECOGNIZED BY HIS DOG ARGUS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the gate as near ulysses drew Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ULYSSES RETURNS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses has come back to me again Last Line: He never tells -- but penelope knows! Subject(s): Homecoming; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885), by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The treasury voted nine to one against your ordinary Last Line: As she lies without a coat of arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The VALHALLA INN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in valhalla is a double swinging door Last Line: And trade the purple barroom tales that men tell other men! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Odysseus VANQUISHED; ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT, by FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the ball or brand Last Line: Vanquished but by death. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day WHAT BEST I SEE; TO U.S.G. RETURN'D FROM HIS WORLD'S TOUR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What best I see in thee Last Line: Were all so justified. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so %near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses |
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