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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BABYLON Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER COURT MARTIAL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is not my mind, therefore Last Line: Not I the king of babylon. Subject(s): Babylon; Military Justice; World War I; Courts Martial; First World War ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S DESIGNS AT BABYLON FRUSTRATED, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He plied hephaestion's ear with royal schemes Last Line: With pools and mounds and marshes far and near. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Babylon ANTIPHONAL HYMN IN PRAISE OF INANNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: No one has sung 'let the world know!' Last Line: O my lady, wife of an, I have told you fury! Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion APPEAL TO THE MOONGOD NANNA-SUEN TO THROW OUT LUGALANNE ..., by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: O suen, the usurper lugalanne means nothing to me! Last Line: Inanna! %let me call to her! Ace is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion ASHURNATSIRPAL III, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three walls around the town of tela when I came Last Line: There wasn't much left of the town of tela. Subject(s): Ashurnatsirpal Iii; Babylon BABEL: THE GATE OF GOD, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lost towers impend, copeless primeval props Last Line: Cankerous charring, crevices' fronds of flame. Subject(s): Babylon BABYLON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow, daughter of babylon, bow thee to dust! Last Line: And the satyrs shall dance, and the bittern shall cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Religion; Theology BABYLONIAN LYRIC, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nimroud was a hunter, striding Last Line: Tressed with life, with deep death shod. Subject(s): Babylon BABYLONIAN SORROWS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm summon'd by death. I'd fain, my love Last Line: Ere I myself from this earth can pass. Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Grief; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BANISHMENT FROM UR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You asked me to enter the holy cloister Last Line: My soft mouth of honey is suddenly confused. %my beautiful face is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion BANISHMENT FROM UR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You asked me to enter the holy cloister Last Line: My beautiful face is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion BELSHAZZAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight hour was coming on Last Line: Was slain by his servants, -- a ghastly sight. Subject(s): Babylon; Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The CANDLES IN BABYLON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the midnight streets of babylon Subject(s): Babylon CANDLES IN BABYLON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the midnight streets of babylon Last Line: Home to a calm dawn and %the work we had just begun Subject(s): Babylon CONDEMNING THE MOONGOD NANNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: As for me, my nanna ignores me Last Line: Turn them against your own body. %they are made for you' Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CRIMES OF LUGALANNE, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: I can't appease ashimbabbar, the moon god an Last Line: Throw this man out of the city %and capture him! Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CURSE ON URUK, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: What am I in the place of nourishment Last Line: When the people of the city hear my sacred song, %they are ready to die Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion ECHOES: 37. TO W.A., by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or ever the knightly years were gone Last Line: And you were a virgin slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): The Christian Slave;when I Was A King In Babylon Subject(s): Babylon FINAL PRAYER, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the censer the coals are high Last Line: Because your husband is captive, %your rage increases, your heart is never calm Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion HARPS HUNG UP IN BABYLON, by ARTHUR WILLIS COLTON Poem Text First Line: The harps hung up in babylon Last Line: "my soul that's lost in babylon." Subject(s): Babylon; Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres INANNA AND AN, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Like a dragon hou have filled the land Last Line: You are in all our great rites. %who can understand you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND EBIH, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the mountain whree you are unworshipped Last Line: The dancing city is filled with storm, %driving young men toyou, captive Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND EBIH, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the mountains where you are not worshiped Last Line: Driving young men to you as your captives Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ENLIL, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Storms lend you wings, destroyer of the lands Last Line: And walk toward you along a path %from the house of enormous sighs Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ENLIL, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Storms lend you wings, destroyer of the lands Last Line: From the house of enormous sighs Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ISHKUR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You strike everything down in battle Last Line: On your harp of sighs %I hear your dirge Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE ANUNNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: O my lady, the anunna, the great gods Last Line: Who has ever denied you homage, %lady, supreme over the land? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE CITY OF URUK, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You have spoken your holy command over the city Last Line: Impetuous wild cow, supreme lady commanding an, %who dares not worship you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE DIVINE ESSENCES, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Lady of all the essences, full light Last Line: You have gathered the holy essences and worn them %tightly on your breasts Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE HOLY LIGHT, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You with your voices of light Last Line: Tightly on your breasts Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion MAD TOM TATTERMAN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, grey man, good man scavenger, Last Line: "flocks are whiter than the flocks that all your shepherds keep." Subject(s): Babylon; Insanity; Sleep; Madness; Mental Illness MOON GODDESS INANNA AND AN, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Like a dragon you fill the land with venom Last Line: Who can understand you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion OUT OF BABYLON, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their looks for me are bitter Last Line: A heart that cannot break. Subject(s): Babylon OUT OF BABYLON, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stole out of babylon beyond the stolid warders Last Line: Dreaming of earth's loveliness, happy to be free! Subject(s): Babylon; Escapes; Faith; Freedom; Morality; Music & Musicians; Fugitives; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Ethics RESTORATION OF ENHEDUANNA TO HER FORMER STATION, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: The first lady of the throne room Last Line: From the doorsill of heaven comes the word: %'welcome!' Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion RESTORATION OF ENHEDUANNA TO HER FORMER STATION, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: The first lady of the throne room Last Line: From the doorwill of heaven came the word: %'welcome!' -- heart is never calm Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion RUINS OF BABYLON, by FREDERICK C. HUSENBETH Poem Source First Line: The desert was my dwelling - and I stood Subject(s): Babylon; Ruins SONNET: 13, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a woman sitting on a beast Last Line: Now for a truth great babylon is fallen. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Prostitution; Religion; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Theology SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the waters of babylon we sat down and wept Last Line: And men see light. Subject(s): Babylon; Freedom; Italy; Rivers; Liberty; Italians THE CITY OF THE GILDED TEAR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babylon, o babylon Last Line: City of the gilded tear? Subject(s): Babylon; Cities; Judgments; Urban Life THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rage of babylon is roused Last Line: Alas, more dreadful thy remember'd guilt! Subject(s): Babylon; Christianity; Guilt; Prophecy & Prophets; Punishment; Repentance; Penitence THE ROAD TO BABYLON, by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: How far is it to babylon?' Last Line: Have missed the road returning home. Subject(s): Babylon THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation THE TOMBS OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In babylon they sat and wept Last Line: "how doth she now sit desolate!" Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Babylon; Exiles; Jews; Judaism THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long sad row the old gods come Last Line: Lie scattered in the sand! Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Mythology; Wind; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE ULTIMATE NATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once babylon, by beauty tenanted Last Line: She makes his ways her ways eternally? Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Fate; God; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sin; Dead, The; Destiny VISIONS OF DANIEL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Magician, appointed officer Subject(s): Babylon; Daniel (bible) VISIONS OF DANIEL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Magician, appointed officer Last Line: And the reign of cyrus the persian Subject(s): Babylon; Daniel (bible) |
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