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Laws of Internal Composition : Poems With Problems!

By: Florentin Smarandache

... 44 THEATER IN ABSURD - 45 HEARING AT GOD - 46 CITIZEN EDUCATION - 47 SCENE OF SCENERY - 48 DIALOGUE AT LONG DISTANCE - 49 THEATER ACTING - 50 DEMETER HAS DIED - 51 I EXIST AGAINST MYSELF - 52 ALLOW ME TO BE MYSELF - 53 CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT - 54 LESSON OF PHILOSOPHY - 55 FLYING MANUAL - 56 PEACE TO YOU, LOVE - 57 LONG COURSE RUNNERS - 58 THE MATTER IN DE...

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An Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology

By: James Hampton Belton

...ah)...........................................................................................................................86 Ceres (see ́-reez) [Demeter].....................................................................................................................87 Cerunitis (ser-u-ni ́-tis).........................................................................

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Second April

By: Edna Saint Vincent Millay

...t obsidian steep Stiffens the white narcissus numb with sleep? (Seed which Demeter’s daughter bore from home, Uptorn by desperate fingers long ago, Re...

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Cratylus

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...( eidenai) of all noble things. HERMOGENES: Very good; and what do we say of Demeter, and Here, and Apollo, and Athene, and Hephaestus, and Ares, and ... ...ollo, and Athene, and Hephaestus, and Ares, and the other deities? SOCRATES: Demeter is e didousa meter, who gives food like a mother; Here is the lov...

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The Argonautica

By: Apollonius Rhodius

...hare up to the headland, I cast into the furrows the seed, not the corn of Demeter, but the teeth of a dread serpent that grow up into the fashion of ... ...ichore, one of the Muses, bare, united with Achelous; and once they tended Demeter’s noble daughter still unwed, and sang to her in chorus; and at tha... ...os pitilessly mutilated his father; but others call it the reaping hook of Demeter, goddess of the nether world. For Demeter once dwelt in that island...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...................................................... 309 THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER....................................................................... ... with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER I Demeter devastated our good land, In blackness for her daughter s... ... to lure or please. A nature of gaunt ribs, an earth of crags. IV No smile Demeter cast: the gloom she saw, Well draped her direful musing; for in gl... ...ps ashore, while through Shoots the swift foamspit: bare They nodded, and Demeter on them gazed. XI Howbeit the season of the dancing blood, Forgot w... ...of the cloud in fleets! O day 306 Days, when the ball of our vision 387 Demeter devastated our good land, 313 E Earth loves her young: a preferen...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

...f. It turns out that the schoo ner is Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter. She is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with only a sm... ...of Trade inspec tor, I have been permitted to look over the log book of the Demeter, which was in order up to within three days, but contained nothin... ... Russian consul, who kindly translated for me, time being short. LOG OF THE “DEMETER” Varna to Whitby Written 18 July, things so strange happening, th... ...ow satisfied. That all those boxes which arrived at Whitby from Varna in the Demeter were safely deposited in the old chapel at Carfax. There should b...

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The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose

By: Andrew Lang

...he to arise again. And of them that possessed Phylake and flowery Pyrasos, Demeter’s sanctuary, and Iton mother of flocks, and Antron by the sea shore... ...d he yield, the great T elamonian Aias, to a man that is mortal and eateth Demeter’s grain, and may be chosen with the sword of bronze, and with hurli... ...m I in the bonds of suppliantship. For at thy table first I tasted meal of Demeter on the day when thou didst take me captive in the well ordered orch...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

... this—or be no more than fetishism, Obi, Orphic mysteries or ceremonies of Demeter, a legacy of mental dirtiness, a residue of self-muti- lation and s...

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...ty wheatsheaf-ears of the golden-visaged Amabel Fryar-Gunnett, daughter of Demeter in the field to behold, of Aphrodite in her rosy in- cendiarism for...

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Tess of the Durbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

...oman — a whole sex condensed into one typical form. He called her Artemis, Demeter, and other fanciful names half teasingly, which she did not like be...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

...ca greatly indebted for permission to use the restorations of the “Hymn to Demeter,” lines 387-401 and 462-470, printed in the Oxford Text of 1912. Of... ...e demi-gods’. But it may fairly be doubted whether such Hymns as those to “Demeter” (ii), “Apollo” (iii), “Hermes” (iv), “Aphrodite” (v), can have bee... ...e (15), we have no evidence to show either its scope or date. The “Hymn to Demeter,” extant only in the MS. discov- ered by Matthiae at Moscow, descri... ...hiae at Moscow, describes the seizure of Persephone by Hades, the grief of Demeter, her stay at Eleusis, and her vengeance on gods and men by causing ... ... still remains partly a deity of the lower world. In memory of her sorrows Demeter establishes the Eleusinian mysteries (which, however, were purely a... ... and the hymn has almost certainly been used by the author of the “Hymn to Demeter,” so that the date must lie between these two periods, and the seve... ...tributes. The Hymns to “Hermes” (xviii), to the “Dioscuri” (xvii), and to “Demeter” (xiii) are mere abstracts of the longer hymns iv, xxxiii, and ii. ... ...he arrangement of these scholars, num- bering the Hymns to Dionysus and to Demeter, I and II respectively: to place “Demeter” after “Hermes,” and the ... ....) contains a paraphrase of a poem very closely paral- lel to the “Hymn to Demeter.” The mediaeval MSS. (2) are thus enumerated by Dr. T.W . Allen: — ...

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The Longest Journey

By: E. M. Forster

...lves and cupboards and useless little drawers. He had only one picture—the Demeter of Cnidos—and she hung straight from the roof like a joint of meat.... ...fate, to look like Colonel Ingersoll, or to marry Mrs. Julia P. Chunk! The Demeter turned towards him as he bathed, and in the cold water he sang— “Th... ...Rickie was quite startled when a picture swung towards him, and he saw the Demeter of Cnidus, shimmering and grey. Leighton suggested the roof. Mr. St... ... Greek my- thology, because the Greeks looked very straight at things, and Demeter or Aphrodite are thinner veils than ‘The survival of the fittest’, ... ...cent beliefs—the temple of the Ephesian Artemis, the statue of the Cnidian Demeter. Honest, he knew that here were powers he could not cope with, nor,... ...her, until the word was a reality, and the past not a torn photograph, but Demeter the goddess rejoicing in the spring. Ah, if he had seized those hig... ... in thought before the only other pic- ture that the bare room boasted—the Demeter of Cnidus. Outside the sun was sinking, and its last rays fell upon...

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Puck of Pooks Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

...s tall as I am, and she looked like the new statue on the Western Road—the Demeter of the Baskets, you know. And funny! Roma Dea! How Mother could mak...

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The Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English

By: John Martin Crawford

...e (mother earth), and Maan emo (mother of the earth), given to the Finnish Demeter. She is always represented as a god dess of great powers, and, aft...

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