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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MYTHICAL Matches Found: 69 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMPHISBAENA, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Amphisbaena Last Line: When you have to do things double! Subject(s): Mythical Animals ANANSI THE SPIDER, by GERALD MCDERMOTT Poem Source First Line: Anansi. %he is 'spider' Last Line: He tumbles into %many troubles Subject(s): Mythical Animals BASILISK/COCKATRICE, by LAURA WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Head and body of a cock Last Line: A cockatrice.) %hissssss! Subject(s): Mythical Animals BIRTH AND BURIAL OF THE PHOENIX, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoenix, child of death Last Line: Live, sweet wonder, live %and be sufficient unto yourself Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) BUNYIP, by JENNY WAGNER Poem Source First Line: What do bunyips look like?' asked the bunyip Last Line: What a pity,' he murmured. 'what a pity, what a pity' Subject(s): Mythical Animals CERBERUS, by N. B. TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: There! %that terrible three-necked Last Line: He barred the way to pluto's house Subject(s): Mythical Animals CHILDREN OF CORONADO, by MILDRED CRABTREE SPEER Poem Text First Line: The seven cities of cibola rise Last Line: They, too, shall die of thirst along the plains! Subject(s): Cibola (mythical City); Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CHIMERA, by PENELOPE SCAMBLY SCHOTT Poem Source First Line: Do you always act polite? Last Line: He turned that chimera into a word Subject(s): Mythical Animals CHINESE DRAGON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the sun came up, a ball of red Last Line: But I rode a dragon as swift as the wind! Subject(s): Mythical Animals CLIMBING PHOENIX TERRACE AT CHIN-LING, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The phoenix birds once frolicked on phoenix terrace Last Line: I do not see ch'ang-an I grieve Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) DRAGON, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you about me Last Line: Do not pet me very much Subject(s): Mythical Animals DRAGON, by ANNE MCCAFFREY Poem Source First Line: Oh, tongue, give sound to joy and sing Last Line: Of hope and promise on dragonwing! Subject(s): Mythical Animals GANESHA, GANESH, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source Last Line: And maybe your wish will come true Subject(s): Mythical Animals GARUDA, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: He perches in the dusty tamarind tree Last Line: Feather by bright feather, disappears Subject(s): Mythical Animals GRIFFIN, by ARNOLD SUNDGAARD Poem Source First Line: Protector of pharaohs Last Line: Or else you may not! Subject(s): Mythical Animals HIPPOCAMP, by ARNOLD SUNDGAARD Poem Source First Line: Oh, fabrous horse that's half a fish Last Line: Engraved upon a monolith? Subject(s): Mythical Animals HIPPOGRIFF, by ARNOLD SUNDGAARD Poem Source First Line: When mare and griffin meet and mate Last Line: The hippogriff this beast is called Subject(s): Mythical Animals IDEA: 16. AN ALLUSION TO THE PHOENIX, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round Last Line: So you of time shall live beyond the end. Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) IF WE SHADOWS HAVE OFFENDED, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No more yielding but a dream Subject(s): Mythical Animals KAPPA, by HIROAKI SATO Poem Source First Line: Saucer on his head, carapace on his back Last Line: To keep his carapace cucumber-fresh Subject(s): Mythical Animals LEVIATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea Last Line: Upon the earth there is not his like Subject(s): Mythical Animals MANTICORE, by JEANNE STEIG Poem Source First Line: A mythic beast, the manticore Last Line: The creatures in the list above Subject(s): Mythical Animals MINOTAUR, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: King minos had a minotaur Last Line: Swung sword and swished red cape Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Mythical Animals MUTATIONS OF THE PHOENIX: 7, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoenix, bird of terrible pride Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) MYTHOLOGICAL COD, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Soft-finned and waiting Last Line: An arc of liquid fire-the cod Subject(s): Cape Cod; Fishing And Fishermen; Mythical Animals NEWS OF THE PHOENIX, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They say the phoenix is dying, some say dead Last Line: As a precautionary measure, whether he did or not. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) OATS FOR PEGASUS, by W. C. A. WALLAR Poem Text First Line: Why mute your music, critic-frightened soul? Last Line: On strength-of-heart and blood-of-life he soars. Subject(s): Mythical Animals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fictious Animals OKOLO THE LEOPARD WARRIOR, by CHRISTINE PRICE Poem Source First Line: He comes! Last Line: That leaps on its prey Subject(s): Mythical Animals ON CLIMBING IN NAN-KING TO THE TERRACES OF THE PHOENIXES, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Phoenixes that played here once, so that the place was named for them Last Line: I do not see ch'ang-an and I grieve Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) ON THE PHOENIX, by JEAN ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, phoenix, come, if such a bird there be Last Line: Except at pindar's well. Alternate Author Name(s): Adam, Jean Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) OTHER TIGER, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Last Line: Another tiger, the beast not found in verse Subject(s): Animals; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Mythical Animals; Poetry And Poets; Tigers PAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, sweet, sweet, o pan! Last Line: Came back to dream on the river Subject(s): Mythical Animals PEGASUS, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He could not be captured Last Line: Who sings as he flies Subject(s): Mythical Animals PHOENIX, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than the ash stays you from nothingness Last Line: Your mute voice on the crystal embers flinging Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) PHOENIX, by ROBERT (1) FISHER Poem Source First Line: The phoenix in its flight Last Line: And a phoenix may come to rest Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) PHOENIX, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: I am phoenix Last Line: There have never been more Subject(s): Mythical Animals PHOENIX, by MATTI MEGGED Poem Source First Line: The phoenix %who returns time and again Last Line: And return %with wings scorched Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) PHOENIX, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the study Last Line: And when it's hatched, %out pops itselve Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Webs of misery spread in the brain Last Line: Of ten thousand thousand years Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Turtles PHOENIX OF MOZART, by CLAUDE VIGEE Poem Source First Line: Arisen from what childhood %the bird of origins? Last Line: Revolve their strange fires Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Phoenix (mythical Bird) PHOENIX SELF-BORN, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cubs of bears a living lump appear Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) PHOENIX, SELS., by CYNEWULF Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When stars are hid in the western wave, dimmed at dawn Last Line: Singing and caroling to greet the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Cynwulf Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 8. THE PHOENIX, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a bird who hath flown from the west-ward Last Line: She loves him! She loves him! Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) QUETZALCOATL, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: In the world's young days Last Line: And the serpent whispered, %maize Subject(s): Mythical Animals RAINBOW CROW, by NANCY VAN LAAN Poem Source First Line: I will go. I will stop the snow Last Line: Aiya, aiya, aiya, aiya Subject(s): Mythical Animals RENEWAL, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the young phoenix, duteous to his sire Last Line: To the enchanting miracles of change. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Fortitude ROC, by RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Poem Source First Line: Behold the sun Last Line: Feedeth its young %on elephants Subject(s): Mythical Animals SEVENTH CITY OF CIBOLA, by HARRY NOYES PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where these low walls run fast to the desert sand Subject(s): Cibola (mythical City); Native Americans SPHINX, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: As the sun %is going down Last Line: Ground out like powered rock Subject(s): Mythical Animals THE CENTAURS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Playing upon the hill three centaurs were Last Line: They raced into the wood! Subject(s): Centaurs; Mythical Animals; Fictious Animals THE CITY OF CHOAN, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The phoenix are at play on their terrace Last Line: And I am sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE PHOENIX, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By feathers green, across casbeen Last Line: And are with gazing most content. Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE PHOENIX, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My phoenix long ago secured Last Line: Of allah's love his soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE PHOENIX ANALYSED, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, after all, let no man Last Line: But a bare type and figure. Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Webs of misery spread in the brain Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Turtles; Tortoises THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the bird of loudest lay Last Line: For these dead birds, sigh a prayer. Subject(s): Doves; Legends; Love; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE PHOENIX REBORN FROM ITS ASHES, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Text First Line: On love it has been written Last Line: On night no one at all has had anything to say. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Rebirth THE PHOENIX TO MRS. BUTTS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird rise from the east Last Line: Then it flies on glancing wing Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE PHOENIX, FR. NEPENTHE, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blest unfabled incense tree Last Line: A thirstier minstrel drew in me! Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Phoenix Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 109, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mandarin ducks roost for the night Last Line: They don't usurp the phoenix's lake Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ducks; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Mallards; Drakes THE THIRD SERMON ON THE WARPLAND, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is a beautiful place Last Line: You could make music too / the blackblues Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE ZIZ, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the ziz? Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Ziz (mythical Bird) THREE RIDDLES FROM SYMPHOSIUS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My death is life; when born, I am unmade Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Riddles; Mythology UNICORN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh this is the animal that never was Last Line: Looking at them calmly, with clear eyes Subject(s): Mythical Animals WHITE BUFFALO WOMAN, by JOHN BIERHORST Poem Source First Line: ...A beautiful maiden dressed in sage Last Line: Trotting over the prairie Subject(s): Mythical Animals WINGS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was it she taught Last Line: Could flap across a desk and fly away? Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Mythical Animals; Fictious Animals YETI, by JOHN GARDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The yeti is a manlike beast Last Line: All he can say is, 'maybe' Subject(s): Mythical Animals YOU MUST DRIVE TO PHOENIX, by MILES WAGGENER Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry. Turn off your air conditioner. I know Last Line: And into a row of thick trees enter Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Phoenix (mythical Bird) ZIZ, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is the ziz? Last Line: We are blind to, a birdhood %to cover the head of the sky Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Ziz (mythical Bird) |
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