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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VILLANELLE OF ACHERON, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the pale marge of acheron Last Line: Beyond the scope of any sun. | |||
BY the pale marge of Acheron, Methinks we shall pass restfully, Beyond the scope of any sun. There all men hie them one by one, Far from the stress of earth and sea, By the pale marge of Acheron. 'Tis well when life and love is done, 'Tis very well at last to be, Beyond the scope of any sun. No busy voices there shall stun Our ears: the stream flows silently By the pale marge of Acheron. There is the crown of labour won, The sleep of immortality, Beyond the scope of any sun. Life, of thy gifts I will have none, My queen is that Persephone, By the pale marge of Acheron, Beyond the scope of any sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...O MORS! QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA HOMINI PACEM HABENTI by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON TO ONE IN BEDLAM by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON A CORONAL; WITH HIS SONGS AND HER DAYS TO HIS LADY & TO LOVE by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON A LAST WORD by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON A REQUIEM by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON A SONG by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON A VALEDICTION by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON AD DOMNULAM SUAM by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON AD MANUS PUELLAE; FOR LEONARD SMITHERS by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON AMANTIUM IRAE by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON |
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