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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BIRTHRIGHT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord rameses of egypt sighed
Last Line: And little ariadne sleep.
Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence
First Line: Lord rameses of egypt sighed
Last Line: And little ariadne sleep.
Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence
Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed
Because a summer evening passed;
And little Ariadne cried
That summer fancy fell at last
To dust; and young Verona died
When beauty's hour was overcast.
Theirs was the bitterness we know
Because the clouds of hawthorn keep
So short a state, and kisses go
To tombs unfathomably deep,
While Rameses and Romeo
And little Ariadne sleep.
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