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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EUMARES, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poet's Biography
First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent
Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos
Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent
Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos
Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
TUMULTUOUS sea, whose wrath and foam are spent
So nigh to Eumares' worn monument;
Spare if thou wilt and shatter if thou must,
For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust.
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