Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER READING HOMER, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who on the mountain-side Last Line: O dear divine old giant, at thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey | ||||||||
HAPPY the man, who on the mountain-side Bending o'er fern and flowers his basket fills: Yet he will never know the outline-power, The awful Whole of the Eternal Hills. So some there are, who never feel the strength In thy blind eyes, majestic and complete, Which conquers those, who motionlessly sit, O dear divine old Giant, at thy feet. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS A LETTER by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN |
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