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Subject: DELPHI
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHARIOTEER OF DELPHI, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the horses of the sun?
Last Line: Uncurbed in us, where fires are fanned
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Delphi; Sculpture And Sculptors


CHARIOTEER OF DELPHI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You who ran races stand so still
Subject(s): Delphi; Sculpture And Sculptors


DELPHI, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have seen delphi: I no more shall see it
Last Line: "beheld; and chose it for his earthly shrine!"
Subject(s): Delphi; Castri


DELPHI, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the vintage moon's uncertain light
Last Line: That I may know what delphi was indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Delphi; Castri


DELPHI HUMORESQUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree of agamemnon gives a shade
Last Line: Then, kissing a dead leaf good-bye, is gone.
Subject(s): Delphi; Greece; Castri; Greeks


FROM DELPHI TO CAMDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From delphi to camden - little hoosier towns
Last Line: On this reckless road to ruin or to fame was -- dr. Smith!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Castles; Delphi; Forests; Robin Hood; Castri; Woods


GREEK SONG: 1. THE STORM OF DELPHI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far through the delphian shades
Last Line: With thy bounding streams again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Delphi; Castri


NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: There all the golden codgers lay
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of


NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There all the golden codgers lay
Last Line: Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs %copulate in the foam
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of


ON HEARING A GUIDE EXPLAIN THE DELPHIC ORACLE WAS A HOAX, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis is mount parnassus. Far below us
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of; Impostors And Imposture


ON THE WAY TO DELPHI, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oedipus slew his father near this muddy field
Last Line: All out: parnassus. The oracle's voice is wild
Subject(s): Delphi; Castri


ON THE WAY TO DELPHI, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oedipus slew his father near this muddy field
Last Line: All out: parnassus. The oracle's voice is wild
Subject(s): Delphi


ORACLE AT DELPHI, by ROBERT BAGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: King croesus carried to apollo's sibyl
Subject(s): Croesus, King Of Lydia (d. 546 B.c.); Delphi


THE CHARIOTEER OF DELPHI, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the horses of the sun?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Delphi; Sculpture & Sculptors; Castri


THE DELPHIAN CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High over castaly, on delphi's steep
Last Line: "this delphian child hath brought me nearest god.'"
Subject(s): Delphi; Orphans; Castri; Foundlings


THE ORACLE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To phoebus' shrine three youths of fame
Last Line: "none in the dust the wrestler lay!"
Subject(s): Apollo; Delphi; Mythology - Classical; Castri


THE TOMB OF LAIUS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where delphi's consecrated pass
Last Line: To good the dross of evil deeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Delphi; Graves; Castri; Tombs; Tombstones


THE VIEW FROM CASTRI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There have been bright and glorious pagents
Last Line: Thou hast a mightier voice to speak the eternal's reign!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Delphi; Castri


TO THE ORACLE AT DELPHI, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great oracle, why are you staring at me,
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of


WE SHOULD NOT MIND IF ON OUR EAR THERE FELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some sense of cunning, more of oracle
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of


WINTER AT DELPHI, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold are the stars of the night
Last Line: But apollo, the god, apollo?
Subject(s): Delphi