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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHEPHERD, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherds, ye who wander with your white flocks feeding Last Line: I shall know, shall repay it. Do the dead forget? | |||
SHEPHERDS, ye who wander with your white flocks feeding, Your white flocks and your goats, on this airy brow, A little thing Clitagoras entreats, but dear exceeding, By Earth, by the Queen to whom dead men bow: Let the sheep bleat near me still, the lad their warder, As soft they feed, sit piping on his rude rock-seat; Then, when spring comes, let a fellow set in order A flower or two, and so make my gravestone sweet; And with milk let one bedew it from a ewe late-deliver'd, Holding up the udder, that the warm stream jet Just a little on the base: in the land dark-river'd I shall know, shall repay it. Do the dead forget? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ONLY SON by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM THE LAST JOURNEY by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM THE SPINNING WOMAN by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM THE TOMB OF CRETHON by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM THE LIGHTED WINDOW by SARA TEASDALE THE CHAPERON by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 by THOMAS CAMPION THE TIDE OF FAITH by MARY ANN EVANS THE HERO OF VIMY; AN INCIDENT OF THE GREAT WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON |
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