Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HESIOD, 1908, by ALEXANDER WILLIAM MAIR


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First Line: Death at the headlands, hesiod, long ago
Last Line: And strong orion and the hyades.
Subject(s): Death; Hesiod (9th Century B.c.); Dead, The


DEATH at the headlands, Hesiod, long ago
Gave thee to drink of his unhonied wine:
Now Boreas cannot reach thee lying low,
Nor Sirius' heat vex any hour of thine:
The Pleiads rising are no more a sign
For thee to reap, nor when they set to sow:
Whether at morn or eve Arcturus shine,
To pluck the vine or prune thou canst not know.

Vain now for thee the crane's autumnal flight,
The loud cuckoo, the twittering swallow -- vain
The flowering scolumus, the budding trees,
Seed-time and Harvest, Blossoming and Blight,
The mid, the early, and the later rain,
And strong Orion and the Hyades.





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