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Tithonus Poems - Poems about Tithonus


Sappho Translations XI
...Sappho Translations XI by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 92 translation by Michael R. Burch “Sappho, if you don’t leave your room, I swear I’ll never love you again! Get out of bed, ris......

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Categories: tithonus, beauty, clothes, flower, god,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translation: Eros
...SAPPHO TRANSLATIONS Eros harrows my heart: wild winds whipping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks. —Sappho, fragment 42, translation by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 113 loose trans......

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Categories: tithonus, desire, longing, love, lust,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member Aurora
...Over the hills I unroll my light blanket Warming the earth Reviving,refreshing and resurrecting The sleeping colours Where a solitary rabbit sits snuffling and still Drinking in the sparkling ra......

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Categories: tithonus, beauty, pain, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
No Free Lunch
...A scientist pursuing research— with disinterested curiosity, Poets distancing themselves— from personal emotions, from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect), A sportsperson focusing on the event— ......

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Categories: tithonus, irony, satire, society,
Form: Free verse
Tithonus
...An ancient Greek named Tithonus Got Aurora, his wife and a goddess, To ask Zeus a favor, That he live forever, But forgot to add, also ageless.......

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Categories: tithonus, humorous, myth,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Silver Wheels
...memories you bring, what joy, what heartache, Brenda. I had forgotten you 'til now, but silver wheels still squeal at the far side of my brain. ------------------------------------------------ "And thee returning on thy silver wheels" - from "Tithonus", by Alfred Tennyson. 6/8/2016 Contest - Your own favorite poem Sponsor - Carol Eastman 1st place win......

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Categories: tithonus, absence,
Form: Light Verse
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 03
...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 03 Grey eyed Brutus was truly a Trojan son as he attended his father upon a great hunt Jealous Juno hated this Brutus this Trois her anger caused his arrow to slay ......

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Categories: tithonus, hero, history,
Form: Epic
The Great Entertainer
...For the briefest moment His face shines upon you, You are the center, the focus, all that is important in that flash. In His gaze your are nurtured and grow to your prime, In that single glimpse y......

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Categories: tithonus, allegory, angst, confusion, death,
Form: I do not know?
Grasshopper
...Beautiful Eos, goddess of dawn Cursed to love a man like me. How could I not be drawn To your luminous beauty? So I, Tithonus, Prince of Troy, Plucked the fruit from heaven's sky. A mortal ma......

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Categories: tithonus, imagination, lovelove, me,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things