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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRIOLET: 3, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the dim hesperides
Last Line: The girl who sang them long ago?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.)
First Line: Beyond the dim hesperides
Last Line: The girl who sang them long ago?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.)
(Written in a copy of "The Poems of Sappho".)
Beyond the dim Hesperides,
The girl who sang them long ago
Could never dream that over seas,
Beyond the dim Hesperides,
The wind would blow such songs as these --
I wonder now if she can know,
Beyond the dim Hesperides,
The girl who sang them long ago?
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