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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are thy splendors, dorian corinth? Where
Last Line: Alone are spared to chant the halcyon's dirge.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins
First Line: Where are thy splendors, dorian corinth? Where
Last Line: Alone are spared to chant the halcyon's dirge.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins
WHERE are thy splendors, Dorian Corinth? Where
Thy crested turrets, thy ancestral goods,
The temple of the blest, the dwellings of the fair,
The high-born dames, the myriad multitudes?
There's not a trace of thee, sad doomed one, left;
By ravening war at once of all bereft.
We, the sad nereids, offspring of the surge,
Alone are spared to chant the halcyon's dirge.
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