Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES WRITTEN TO A TRANSLATOR OF GREEK POETRY, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poet's Biography First Line: A wild spring upland all this charmed page Last Line: To the great voices of old tragedists! Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting; Wellesley College | ||||||||
A WILD spring upland all this charmed page, Where, in the early dawn, the maenads rage, Mad, chaste, and lovely! This, a darker spot, Where lone Antigone bewails her lot, Death for her spouse, her bridal-bed the tomb. And this, again, is some rich palace-room, Where Phaedra pines: "O woodlands! O, the sea!" Or some sweet walk of Sappho, beauteously Built o'er with rose, with bloom of purple grapes! They are all here -- the ancient Attic shapes Of passion, beauty, terror, love, and shame; Proud shadows, you do summon them by name: Achaean princes -- Helen -- the young god, Fair Dionysus -- OEdipus, who trod Such ways of doom! Aye, these and more than these You call across the ages and the seas! And each one, answering, doth dream he lists To the great voices of old tragedists! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LESSER BEAUTY by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON WORK by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON IN MEMORY: MISS JEWETT by GRACE ALLERTON ANDREWS HERE ENTER NOT by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON I CLEANED MY HOUSE TODAY by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON MY GARDEN by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON MADISON CAWEIN by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON |
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