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HYMN TO MINERVA, by HOMER Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the glorious power with azure eyes Last Line: Nor thine nor other's praise shall unremembered be. | ||||||||
I SING the glorious Power with azure eyes, Athenian Pallas, tameless, chaste, and wise, Tritogenia, town-preserving maid, Revered and mighty; from his awful head Whom Jove brought forth, in warlike armor dressed, Golden, all radiant! wonder strange possessed The everlasting Gods that shape to see, Shaking a javelin keen, impetuously Rush from the crest of AEgis-bearing Jove; Fearfully Heaven was shaken, and did move Beneath the might of the Cerulean-eyed; Earth dreadfully resounded, far and wide; And, lifted from its depths, the sea swelled high In purple billows, the tide suddenly Stood still, and great Hyperion's son long time Checked his swift steeds, till where she stood sublime, Pallas from her immortal shoulders threw The arms divine; wise Jove rejoiced to view. Child of the AEgis-bearer, hail to thee, Nor thine nor other's praise shall unremembered be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ODYSSEY: THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS by HOMER HOMER'S HYMN TO THE MOON by HOMER HOMERIC HYMN TO MERCURY by HOMER ILIAD: HELEN ON THE WALLS by HOMER THE HOUSE OF ALCINOUS by HOMER |
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