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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BRONZE TRUMPETS AND SEA WATER; ON TURNING LATIN VERSE INTO ENGLISH, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Alembics turn to stranger things
Last Line: Who smooths the ripples out of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Change; English Language; Latin Language; Translating & Interpreting
First Line: Alembics turn to stranger things
Last Line: Who smooths the ripples out of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Change; English Language; Latin Language; Translating & Interpreting
Alembics turn to stranger things
Strange things, but never while we live
Shall magic turn this bronze that sings
To singing water in a sieve.
The trumpeters of Caesar's guard
Salute his rigorous bastions
With ordered bruit; the bronze is hard
Though there is silver in the bronze.
Our mutable tongue is like the sea,
Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit;
Dangle in strings of sand shall he
Who smooths the ripples out of it.
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